I have decided to create a Symbaloo! This year my technology teacher introduced Symbaloo to our staff and students. I quickly fell in love with how it was set up. I decided to use this website because of how easy it was to add, sort, find and click. Students in her classroom are able to play the games and go the website from the comfort of their home as well.
My Symbaloo
In my PLN, here are a have used:
Twitter @MissAshBurton
Twitter is hands down the easiest way to grow followers in my PLN. I have found co-workers that work in my district to people across the world. I even found a website that was shared in my #edtechchat that was written by a fellow Ladue co-worker in the district. Twitter is a big, yet small world!
Feedly
I have grown to really like Feedly. I added my classmates blogs to my Feedly account. It is a great place to find my blogs I am following quickly. I am just a click away to reading my favorite posts.
Skype
I have not used Skype in the classroom but I use Skype for connecting with my family and friends. My friends do not have IOS devives so Skype is a great option. I am excited to Skype educators from my PLN. I have actually had one of my Twitter chat monitors offer to Skype about SAMR with my school. The possibilities are really endless!!
Lastly, I wanted to share my love for Diigo. I would not survive my MET program without it! It really saves time for me. I bookmark anything that was shared within my courses and classmates. It will always be there for me when I need it. I enjoy the cloud/hashtag feature. I break all my bookmarks into categories for every class and objectives. It really is a life savor!!
Ashely,
ReplyDeleteDiigo is the one tool that I was really irritated that I had to create in my first course in August. Little did I know that I would still be using it! I absolutely love it too. There is no way I would be able to keep track of all the websites that I use. Now I wonder how I survived without it.
I was the SAME way. I thought, "Why did I need to bookmark?" Now I am thankful I did as well! :)
DeleteI had totally forgotten about symbaloo! I feel like we have been introduced to so many websites that I forget all about them if I don't use them. Thank you for reminding me about it! And I am glad I am not the only one addicted to Pinterest :)
ReplyDeleteI think we need a Pintervention...JUST KIDDING! It is completely healthy! I am just thankful I am getting kudos for all my hard pinning work for once. HA!
Delete& you're welcome!
DeleteAshley,
ReplyDeleteYour Symbaloo looks great! I also used it to organize my PLN. After following your blog during this course I feel like we have A LOT in common, especially our love of Pinterest! I have created a Diigo account, but I haven't found that I'm using it as much as Pinterest. I figured I'll use it more and more as I continue through this program and maybe it'll become more natural for me to use. We'll see!
I was noticing that as well that we are a lot alike! Great minds think alike ;) !
DeleteI have gotten in the habit to make it to a desktop once a week to pin the course info to my Diigo. I cannot say I pull from it much but I know its there!
Ashley,
ReplyDelete1. It is indeed amazing how small the edtech world is. When I travel to schools or edtech conferences around the country, I always meet someone who knows me from Twitter. I am sure you will experience that as well.
2. Social bookmarking accounts are a wonderful thing. I do not know how I would live without it. I search nearly any edtech topic and have quality resources right at my fingertips. Good tagging skills are key to making it worthwhile.
3. I am glad that you and Melanie found each other :-)