Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Using Symbaloo to Share Bookmarks

 Symbaloo is a great way to organize your bookmarks online and share them with students or fellow teachers.  The concept is very simple.  You have a blank page that you can fill with tiles that each link to a website.  The finished product ends up looking like this:



I think this is a great way to keep your bookmarks organized, as well as online - so no matter what computer you are working on, you will always have access to them.  What is also nice about symbaloo, is that you can make as many "mixes" as you want.  So, for instance, you might have a mix for your language arts students to use which is different than the mix you have created for your social studies class.  All you have to do is sign up for a free membership, and you can begin building your mixes.  I would highly recommend downloading the Symbaloo bookmarker add-on  that allows you to easily add any website you are on, without having to be on the symbaloo website.  It will add two easy-to-use icons to your web browser toolbar.
 
If you use Mozilla Firefox, you can download it here
If you use Google Chrome, you can download it here

One last positive note about this is that you can search through many public "mixes" that teachers have already created to help you find new resources and ideas.  You can really find some great websites that you didn't know about, I know that I have.

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