As you all know, I’m very fond of Symbaloo! I have 16 webmixes and all but one is shared with the public. The ability to put together groupings of visual bookmarks, use the Symbaloo app (available for iPhone, iPad, and Android) and Firefox Addons, makes Symbaloo and excellent educational tool. There are two changes that I hope they’ll add as soon as possible to their visual bookmarking tool!
- Click to sort bookmark tiles – Alpha: I want to be able to click and have all of my bookmark tiles sort alphabetically! Wow, that would be AWESOME!
- Rework The Tab Interface – Good news on this as I’m told they are in the process of focusing on this concern. Currently, I have 16 tabs and only 6.5 fit on my screen so I have to scroll to see 10.5 of them.
I’m excited to be presenting on Symbaloo at TCEA next February and hope these new features will have been in place for a long time when I do.
Carol Mortensen has nearly twenty-three years of educational experience. She began as a substitute teacher as she worked toward her degree. Upon graduation, Carol began teaching middle school Math and Algebra I and served as the technology liaison for her campus. She served as a teacher for 16 years and was lucky to have taught at Hillcrest Middle School, a 1:1 campus where every student was issued a laptop computer. She also worked as an Instructional Technology Trainer for her district providing training and technology integration support for campus and district staff, faculty and administrators. Currently, Carol enjoys her position as the Campus Technology Integration Specialist for Deer Park High School – South Campus. Before taking this position this year, she served for three years as the Campus Technology Integration Specialist at Fairmont Junior High in Deer Park Independent School District. In this position, Carol provides integration support and training to the students, staff, faculty, and administrators at the campus and district level. In addition, Carol is an online Math instructor for Aventa Learning and K12. The Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) named Carol the Classroom Teacher of the Year for her innovative and creative use of technology to create a 24/7 virtual classroom using her classroom website. Carol has presented at school districts throughout Texas as well as state and local conferences on a variety of technology integration topics. Her article on the use of websites as an instructional tool was recently published in the TechEdge Magazine. In February 2011, her article, Lessons Learning In a 1:1 Classroom, was published by TechEdge. The article was republished in ISTE’s Learning and Leading magazine in August 2011. She was named Fairmont Junior High’s Teacher of the Year for the 2011-2012 school year. Carol is passionate about the positive impact that technology has on student achievement. Her presentations are packed with real-life solutions, quality resources, and humor. She has an ability to connect with her audience and motivate them to take technology integration to a higher quality level.
Great ideas. I’d like to be able to search within my webmixes for a specific tile, seeing as I now have more than 30 webmixes! Love Symbaloo!
Agreed! I know that Symbaloo has improved their responsiveness to our requests. Have you written them to share your idea?