This class focuses on exploring, evaluating and learning how to use the latest tools and applications on the Internet. Students will explore their interests and build an online portfolio (blog) to demonstrate what they can do using innovative web based tools. Some of the tools and applications may include: Marketing and Business, Professional Networking, Virtual Environments, Bookmarking, Social Networks, Multimedia, Photos and Digital Images, Employment and Jobs, Collaboration, Video-Sharing Sites, Podcasts, Wikis, Blogs, Content Aggregation and Management, Organization, Games and Entertainment and more. This course is for anyone who wants to increase their internet skills and knowledge and understand current web tools.


Friday, January 24, 2014

Symbaloo


Symbaloo's - Motto - START SIMPLE!

Visit Symbaloo today - click here!
Abilene has its own Symbaloo page!!!
or you can just use Symbaloo.com 

Symbaloo is social bookmarking website that utilizes icons.  I love this simple to use social bookmarking website.  Today we will visit and start utilizing Symbaloo.

abilene.symbaloo.com - which is a customized symbaloo education account with our school logo on it.  Symbaloo was generous enough to give us this account to utilize the school year.  Thank you Symbaloo!

Students and I will explore Symbaloo to see what other types of web mixes are out there that we would benefit from - adding to our Symbaloo page


 A simple way for students to share and organize what they have found on the Internet is for them to use a social bookmarking website, Symbaloo. Symbaloo - is an icon bookmarking page - which is most commonly used as a personal start page. By setting it as your homepage on your browser, you can start with your online favorites everyday.

You can create your own "web mixes" of your favorite websites - or create them by category. You can conduct a search on Symbaloo to find web mixes that you can add them to your account. When you create a Symbaloo account, there are webmixes already created, such as, major news stories and news highlights from the NYTimes, Washingtonpost, CNN and Wallstreet Journal.
  • Discover pages with the best links about a subject
  • Create your own pages with favorites
  • Share your page with the rest of the world
  • You can share it with just one person, or publish it in the Symbaloo Gallery!



You can create a separate web mix for your different interest areas - games, travel, web tools, etc. To create a webmix, just click the Add a webmix link. Each webmix will have its own tab.

To share your webmix - just click share!
You can share it by email, Facebook or Twitter!

Other information:
  • You can edit a webmix or tile. 
  • Rename it
  • Change wall paper to one of Symbaloo's pictures, or upload your own!
  • When you update your webmix, be sure to click Update Webmix - otherwise your webmix will not be found or updated.
  • Post the link of your webmix on your blog, facebook, website for others to utilize. If they have an account they can add your web mix to their Symbaloo account if they want
  • Very user friendly social book marking site
  • You can always stop sharing your web mix. By clicking stop sharing
  • In the search box on Symbaloo, you can choose your search engine - you can search by the Internet, Images, or Maps.

Here is an example of a Keyboarding Web mix I created for my classes.

As you can see I changed my background by uploading a picture of an iMac. You can also see the tab of web mixes that I have created.  To visit my keyboarding web mix click here. 


 Create an account to get started!