Symbaloo - Adding Tiles to a Webmix

Description: 

Symbaloo is great way to save all your favorite bookmarks in one place.  It is also very easy to share a webmix with your students. 

Website: 
          http://www.symbaloo.com/

Transcript:  

Hello everyone, this is Misty Antonioli and today I am going to give you a quick tutorial of Symbaloo.  Symbaloo is a place where you can bookmark all of your favorite websites in one place.  So, if you are like me and you have a computer at home plus you have your work computer you have bookmarked your favorites.  Symbaloo allow you to put all of your favorite websites in one place.  What you are looking at right now is the home screen and each one of these are tiles that make up your webmix.  So I have a home one set up here, uhm, Just for Fun, if I click on that, has one, and then the ones with the locks here. Uhm. These are made by somebody else, that I am following.  You can follow different people also link to your Facebook and Twitter accounts, that is all in your profile when you set that up.

So I am fairly new to this, I just discovered this earlier this week from another classmate and I think it going to be amazing for next year.  So, uhm, lets come over here to the plus arrow, and that allows you to add a new webmix.  I’m going to name mine, you can see here I’ve uhm already started a few, but I’m going to put in this time, Algebra II, for my webmix name.  And all you have to do is hit add. 

Now I have a blank webmix where I have all these tiles and if I want to add a new tile I most certainly can do that. You can do this one of two ways.  You can create a tile or search for a tile.  I’m going to create a tile and I am going to put in here www.kutasoftware.com and it is a website and then you can go ahead and design your tile.  For the name I am just going to put on here, KUTA, and I want my text color to be white, background color to be blue.  Then you can choose an icon or upload an image for your tile. If you choose an icon there are different ones here.  I don’t want any of these so I am just going to close out here, but I am going to upload an image.  So I am just going to choose a file, and I am doing this right from my computer, and hit upload.  And then you just have to fit the dimensions for what you would like your tile to look like.  Save it.  And then it gives you a preview up here, so that looks good, so I am going to go ahead and save. And then it adds my tile to my webmix. 

I’m going to add another one, this time I am going to search for a tile.  And I am going to go head and put in, Google Drive, and you can see the symbol comes up right here. So all I have to do is click on it and it automatically adds it.  So you can do this with multiple different websites that you have, and then if you click on it, it will automatically open up to that website.  So I am just going to close out of that. 

Okay, so a few things that you can do with your webmix is that you can share it. So if you would like to share this with your students, you can put in a description and you can say for class periods 1, 2, and 8.  Then you want to make sure it’s shared publicly.  Now you can share through e-mail, you can embed the code, copy and paste.  If you are logged into your Twitter and Facebook accounts you can also share it that way.  I have not logged into mine, and that’s why you see this here in red.  So I am just going to copy and paste this and open up a new tab, just so you can see what it looks like to the students, your students. 

Let’s close out of that.  Uhm, so it comes up the name of your webmix, with the description, tells when you have last updated it, you see the tiles, and then the students if they have an account they can add this webmix to theirs or they can even place comments here so you could have discussions.  Uhm, so I think this is pretty cool here. If we just close out of this and go back to the main page here.  Lets say that you’re done with Algebra II, and you uhm don’t really want to look at this, but you don’t want to delete it.  If you just hit the x here, it will take it off your tabs.  Okay.  So you might be saying okay how do I find that if I want that back up there?  You just come over here to the left and you will see the Algebra II is down here, click on that, and it will bring that tab back up. 

Now if you want to permanently get rid of this tab, all you have to do is drag it up, alright I’m sorry.  Make sure it is highlighted and then hit remove, and it is going to ask you if you want to permanently remove it, you can’t get it back, and you just say I’m sure.

So I hope you guys like this resource as much as I do. I think it going to be amazing that I will have all of my favorite websites both personal as well as for, you know, my teaching job all in one place that I can access wherever I like. So I hope guys have fun with this.