Setting Up A Symbaloo Edu Account
The main difference between a regular Symbaloo.com account and the SymbalooEDU accounts is the content that you start with. SymbalooEDU accounts come with preset educational webmixes preinstalled that are continuously updated with the latest and greatest educational sites recommended by the Symbaloo Certified educators.
Setting up an account includes the following steps: Go to SymballooEdu registration user from. Complete the registration user form by following the directions of entering your name, e-mail address, password, check the user agreement box and then select create and account. The last step in the tutorial to the right requires the user to verify their account by going to their e-mail. To learn more about how to use Symbaloo select link to Symbaloo User Guide The video tutorial provides information on how to setup a symbaloo account.
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Organizing Digital Content
Teachers in the past have taught organizational skills in a static system within a structured format. This delivery format took on the model of breaking down tasks and asking students to explicitly complete very defined units of information, such as do as I do and you will learn. A typical classroom instructional practice for developing organizational skills would include, record my notes from the board, write your name on your paper directive, or complete your assignment on time.
Today's digital world requires a different type of skills. Students at present function in a world where multiple task are the norm for student engagement. Students now must learn how to gather information in a dynamic organizational systems. A organizational system built on vast reservoirs of content consumption and content creations. To master the volumes of content being produced and redistributed creates a need for new skill set. These are the skill sets that involve invariable adjustments to setting priorities, performing multidimensional task, evening out workloads, adjusting timeframes, prioritizing tasks and navigating networks. All of these skills in the near future will become less teacher-directed and more student centered. Classrooms of the future will require a more diverse approach to the development of organizational skills, especially when working in a connected learning environment. The purpose of this section is to provide tools that will help both the teacher and student organize their digital learning environments. One of the best organizational tools for helping students and teachers to organize their content and presentation material is Symbaloo.
Today's digital world requires a different type of skills. Students at present function in a world where multiple task are the norm for student engagement. Students now must learn how to gather information in a dynamic organizational systems. A organizational system built on vast reservoirs of content consumption and content creations. To master the volumes of content being produced and redistributed creates a need for new skill set. These are the skill sets that involve invariable adjustments to setting priorities, performing multidimensional task, evening out workloads, adjusting timeframes, prioritizing tasks and navigating networks. All of these skills in the near future will become less teacher-directed and more student centered. Classrooms of the future will require a more diverse approach to the development of organizational skills, especially when working in a connected learning environment. The purpose of this section is to provide tools that will help both the teacher and student organize their digital learning environments. One of the best organizational tools for helping students and teachers to organize their content and presentation material is Symbaloo.
Creating Digital Dashboards
The creation of tiles allows for quick access to information. The creation of multiple tiles results in the configuration of a digital dashboard. Additional tabs can also be created for the formation of multiple dashboard. These additional subcategory tabs provides the option to organize tools and web resources that include frequently used sites for mixing content, storing content or generating content. The sorting and organizing of content reference points on a dashboards is the creation of a webmix. A webmix that can be shared from student to teacher and techer to student. Symbaloo not only serves as a bookmark for frequently used resources but can also serve as an assignment marker for posting assignments.
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Personal Learning Environment
Symbaloo can also serve as a tool for helping students create their own personal learning environments. The Personal Learning Environment distinguishes the role of the individual as a self motivated learner who is capable in organizing his or her own learning through facilitation and instructional guidance. The creation of a PLE are based on the idea that learning will take place in co-collaborative networked environments and will not be provided by a single one shoe fits all learning provider. Linked to this is an increasing recognition of the importance of informal learning as the instruction is primarily based on becoming familiar with Web 2.0 applications in creating and remixing of content.
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Bookmarking Symbaloo on Your iPad
Symbaloo can be used as a quick resource for accessing content during a lesson by using the iPads bookmark feature. A quick three step guide explains how to bookmark Symbaloo on iPad screen. This process of accesing from the iPad bookmarklet provides easy content referencing when teachers are needeing to resource multiple website or digital content during a lesson on their iPad. (Reference Guide Explaining iPad Bookmarking)
Personal Learning Networks
The best examples of connected schools are the schools who have created one to one mobile learning opportunities. These are the schools where individual staff members come together with different values, education, skills, motivation, and beliefs. Each member of the instructional staff has an inherent belief about how the education of students should be conducted in his or her classroom. These are the student centered schools. These are the schools who are changing the
landscape of instruction to fit the learning needs of their students. These are the schools that are creating "Classrooms Without Walls," where personal learning networks are designed to fit the learning needs of the 21st Century. These are the schools where individuals and groups of teachers explore connected learning resources that can be applied to the classroom setting. They are creative teachers who find, learn and apply networked resources to instructional strategies that are proven to be effective. |
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