Symbaloo is a cloud-based bookmarking and curation tool that organizes the user's ideas and resources into personalized category buttons.
Symbaloo is a resource management service that uses tiles to serve as links to curated notes, resources, and websites in colorful 'webmixes.' These webmixes can be created by the educator or students. The Symbaloo education site offers a variety of pre-populated webmixes for use in the classroom.
Learning Paths by Symbaloo - Learning Paths allow a gaming-style digital lesson plan using Symbaloo.
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Symbaloo is a web- and cloud-based service that will function on most web-enabled computers and devices. Additional support is provided for phone and tablet users.
Webmixes provide a landing page for student inquiry and research. These are some examples of Symbaloo webmixes for different learning contexts.
Learning paths allow educators to provide resources to allow students to progress at their own path.
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Shapes Learning Path - example of learning path to understand concepts taught in Math K-5.
Basic Art Concepts - example of learning path on the basic concepts of art at the secondary level grades 9-12.
Digital Citizenship - example of learning path teaching digital citizenship
For student creation of Symbaloo webmixes, educators should model and review effective search practices. Teacher creation of webmixes can guide students through identify tasks or resources while promoting student choice, path, and/or pace of learning.
The game-styled buttons and design of Symbaloo provide an alternative means to curate and present materials to students while promoting student choice and agency.
Curated Symbaloo webmixes allow educators to provide differentiated resources and offer students increased choice in reading and viewing instructional resources.
Symbaloo can support flipped learning using any instructional model by providing persistent access to curated resources to support student learning.
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