I've been using Symbaloo for a couple of years now and it's a great free web tool. Essentially it's a bookmarking tool for websites which you can curate into different webmixes - collections of websites. Each website is displayed as a tile, which you can re-name, alter the image and move about the webmix You then click on that tile to go to the website. I have various webmix pages including for collating web resources and videos for future projects, for CPD reading and webinars and also one for books I've reviewed for Reading Zone. It's a great being able to see what I've read and reviewed and bring up the review with just a click, and remind myself what a book was about before a book talk! As Symbaloo is a website you log into it from any device and manage your webmixes. Also, as someone who used to keep websites open in a tab on his iPad till I needed them, using Symbaloo has allowed me to tidy up by web browser and keep it much less cluttered! One other advantage of collating resources on a theme in a webmix is that you can share this page with other people. During lockdown I was able to use this facility to create themed collections of web resources and share them online with pupils at my schools to access and support their learning. I also plan to make symbaloo part of my senior research skills sessions, as a way to encourage pupils to use as part of their research process.
Symbaloo has lots of uses and it is certainly a web tool worth investigating!
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