Tech Tuesday!

Linking up again!

Being in a Digital 1:1 school, we were into it so quickly that it seemed like we would try this and that---and not everything would stick into our routine.  Except for one glorious thing......Symbaloo.

I will admit that I read about it the summer before, but I just didn't get the point.  Big deal-another place to place your bookmarks, right?  True!  I have found it to be very useful for the students in keeping them focused to the important place-the accepted places.
Here is an example of the page that my children will use-only it has tabs at the top for me to manage.  the kids only see the actual page.

This is the only bookmark my kids need!  They can get to every place I want them to with a click of the mouse.  I can easily add a link to this week's Scholastic News Interactive or a particular website.  Once we are done with that link, I will move it to the "Saved Tiles" tab for next year.

You might notice that two of my tabs are last names....they are my teammates!  It is so much easier for ONE of us to manage the Symbaloo for the grade.  Once a link is made, it can be easily copied to another teacher's page.  So you can COPY or MOVE.  How cool is that??

Last year, I created a "how-to" for a gathering of third grade teachers on how to set up your class Symbaloo.  I created the "how to" to be easy enough for the novice to follow so that newbies wouldn't shy away from this neat tool.  The website might be slightly different from when I developed this last winter, but it should be pretty close.  Pick the instructions HERE!

Hope you like it!