Symbaloo!

We had an assignment this week to start curating technology resources for us to use in the future.  I chose to create my assignment on the website www.symbaloo.com (as did everyone else who has posted at this point!).  For that reason, I'm going to blog about Symbaloo and how I can see using it in the future.

Until this week, I had only heard of Symbaloo.  While at the HECC Conference in November, I was able to use a Symbaloo called the Five-Star 50.  During a presentation, this resource was presented and I had a chance to play around with it.  This week, I actually created a Symbaloo page to use for curation purposes.

I can see the benefit for this program in the coming months at my school.  In the past, I have tried to give teachers lists of websites or resources, but they became overloaded with useless information.  I really like how on Symbaloo I can create a page, the teachers can visit it and instantly access the information in any order they wish.  I also like that it is web-based, meaning they can access it from anywhere they have internet.  

I could envision teachers using this website to create unit plans.  I could also see coaches using this site to share training websites or resources.  I could see students using this tool to catalog all of their  internet creations.  The possibilities are endless.  I also appreciate the ease of use of this program, and am sure many of the teachers in my building will, too.