Symbaloo EDU

Tuesday Tutorial: How to utilize the wallpapers feature to personalize your webmixes

In this weeks Tuesday Tutorial we want to show you how you can a add a wallpaper to your webmix. You can choose from preset images, a selection of colors or upload your own image. To avoid your image appearing tiled, use a picture that has at least 1600 x 1200 pixels. Note: If you share a webmix, the user will not see the wallpaper in the preview version, e.g. www.symbaloo.com/mix/tuesdaytutorial. But once the webmix is added to an account, the wallpaper will show up again. Using this feature is a great way to personalize your webmixes, making them more distinguishable and thus is helping you to keep all your resources organized.
Please check out our YouTube channel and the Tuesday Tutorial webmix to find more tutorials and information on how to make the most out of your Symbaloo experience.

Watch, learn and enjoy:

Tune in every Tuesday as we share a tutorial each week to improve your Symbaloo skills. Do you have any requests for our next tutorial? Drop us a line at feedback@symbaloo.com, leave a comment here or connect with us through our social media. We’d love to hear from you!

Tuesday Tutorial: How to create an embedded tile to view and show videos, presentations or documents within Symbaloo

This Tuesday we want to show you how you can create an embedded tile that opens up a pop-up window with videos, presentations and other content of various web 2.0 tools. You can integrate videos from different platforms like YouTube or Schooltube, presentations and documents from Prezi, Glogster or Google Docs or images from Flickr or Twitpic. Add the Dolphin webmix that features all embed options on Symbaloo. Please check out our YouTube channel and the Tuesday Tutorial webmix to find more tutorials and information on how to make the most out of your Symbaloo experience.

Watch, learn and enjoy:

Tune in every Tuesday as we share a tutorial each week to improve your Symbaloo skills. Do you have any requests for our next tutorial? Drop us a line at feedback@symbaloo.com, leave a comment here or connect with us through our social media. We’d love to hear from you!

Tuesday Tutorial: How to link a tile to a webmix to better manage your online resources

Today we want to show you how you can create a tile that links to another webmix. You can add tiles for your own or other users webmixes as long as they are shared publicly. Another great feature that allows you to organize and distribute your online resources. Please check out our YouTube channel and the Tuesday Tutorial webmix to find more tutorials and information on how to make the most out of your Symbaloo experience.

Watch, learn and enjoy:

Tune in every Tuesday as we share a tutorial each week to improve your Symbaloo skills. Do you have any requests for our next tutorial? Drop us a line at feedback@symbaloo.com, leave a comment here or connect with us through our social media. We’d love to hear from you!

Tuesday Tutorial: How to search for and use widgets in Symbaloo

Today we want to introduce you to the widgets that you can use within your Symbaloo. In this tutorial you will learn how to search for widgets in the database and how you can utilize them via the center box. This videos is focusing on the Facebook and Twitter widgets, but there are a lot more to discover. Take a look at this webmix edu.symbaloo.com/mix/widgets that contains a selection of available widgets. Please check out our YouTube channel to find more tutorials.

Watch, learn and enjoy:

Tune in every Tuesday as we share a tutorial each week to improve your Symbaloo skills. Do you have any requests for our next tutorial? Drop us a line at feedback@symbaloo.com, leave a comment here or connect with us through our social media. We’d love to hear from you!

Tuesday Tutorial: Symbaloo iPad web app – webmixes

Part 3 of our iPad mini series. Today we will show you how to work with webmixes on your Symbaloo iPad web app. Learn how to edit, share and delete the webmixes in your account as well as create new ones or search for existing content in the Symbaloo gallery.

Watch, learn and enjoy:

Tune in every Tuesday as we share a tutorial each week to improve your Symbaloo skills. Do you have any requests for our next tutorial? Drop us a line at feedback@symbaloo.com, leave a comment here or connect with us through our social media. We’d love to hear from you!

Tuesday Tutorial: Symbaloo iPad web app – tiles

As we continue our iPad mini series we want to remind you that you don’t need to go
to the app store if you want to use Symbaloo on your iPad or tablet. Simply open your browser, enter www.symbaloo.com and it will take you straight to the optimized version. Today we will focus on tiles. How to create, search, edit, copy, move or delete one.

Watch, learn and enjoy:

Tune in every Tuesday as we share a tutorial each week to improve your Symbaloo skills. Do you have any requests for our next tutorial? Drop us a line at feedback@symbaloo.com, leave a comment here or connect with us through our social media. We’d love to hear from you!

Tuesday Tutorial: How to change your default webmix

This Tuesday is about basics and how your start on Symbaloo looks like. We take you to the preferences and show you how to change your default webmix. You have the choice between two options for what you are going to see after your sign in. You can choose “the last used” and the first webmix you will see is the last one you were working on. Or you can opt for “a webmix that i select myself” and choose your default webmix from a dropdown menu.

Watch, learn and enjoy:

Tune in every Tuesday as we share a tutorial each week to improve your Symbaloo skills. Do you have any requests for our next tutorial? Drop us a line at feedback@symbaloo.com, leave a comment here or connect with us through our social media. We’d love to hear from you!

Tutorial: Create a Background for Your Tiles:

Tune in every Tuesday as we share a tutorial each week to improve your Symbaloo skills.

Today, we will show you how to create a background for your tiles. You can use a picture as a full background for your tiles, or you can have multiple pictures in different corners. There are many options for customizing your webmix!

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What would you like to learn from the next tutorial? Email us at edu@symbaloo.com. We’d love to hear from you!

Don’t forget! Join us on Twitter tomorrow at 3PM PST for our weekly #symchat & view archived chats here. Topic: art in the classroom.

We recently reached 1 Million Symbaloo’ers and we thought it would be fun
to share the quirky make-up and activity of these users.

Symbaloo’ers are Power Users
At one million users, more than 10 million webmixes have been curated with over half a billion tiles created. Over 84 million minutes a week is spent on Symbaloo; enough time for a single person to be using Symbaloo for 58 days 159 years straight without sleep which would be one VERY old and cranky Symbaloo’er.

Symbaloo’ers Live Longer* (not medically proven)
It takes 15 seconds for the average person to type a url but only 5 seconds for a Symbaloo’er to find and click their Symbaloo tile. At this rate, a long time Symbaloo’er who clicks at least 10 tiles per day would save 24 whole days of typing in their lifetime. (If they started using Symbaloo at age 5 and lived to be 85) So, maybe Symbaloo doesn’t make you live longer but we sure add value to those last 24 days.

Symbaloo’ers are Diverse
Symbaloo’ers of all types, speaking many different languages can be found in almost 200 countries around the world. We even have a single user in the three countries of Fiji, Greenland and Burundi.

We are still anxiously awaiting the King of Zamunda to join Symbaloo…

This month we would like to feature Jeffery Heil for our Educator Spotlight. He is currently a technology resource teacher for the San Diego County Office of Education and also an adjunct professor at California State University of San Marcos. He found Symbaloo at the CUE Conference in Palm Springs last year and decided it would be a good tool for his students to use for their digital portfolios. View the video below as we discuss details of how he is currently using Symbaloo with his students.

Here is a webmix Jeffery created as an example for his students:

It appears that his students really enjoyed his class along with learning about Symbaloo. Check out their examples below to see their digital portfolios and comments about Jeffery’s class:

See more of our featured educator’s here.

If you would like to be featured on our Educator Spotlight, send us an email and tell us how you are using Symbaloo.