Symbaloo Review: Organize Links

Essentially Symbaloo lets you organize all of your favorite websites/links, onto a webpage. Before Symbaloo came along, my life was as disorganized as Boris and Brexit. Now, thanks to Symbaloo, all my links are saved in one place and you can access these from any device.

Personalize

After signing up, you can create pages (webmixes) that you use to organize links; these are arranged into tiles. You can personalize both the web mixes and tiles. You can add backgrounds, icons, text, color, and so on; which certainly helps with the organization theme.

There are also learning paths, which I have yet to experiment with. My understanding is that you can create a series of links, organized into a learning pathway for your students.

Screenshot of my amazing web mix

Using it at School

Symbaloo is a cracking wee tool that you could use with your students every day. My intention for the coming school year is to create web mixes (these are sharable) for different grade levels.

The web mixes will be made up of tiles for all the websites that they need for day-to-day learning, such as ManageBac, Office 365, Newsela, LibGuides, and so on. I believe, that integrating this type of technology will most certainly help your students organize their online resources. Furthermore, once they become used to creating their own web mixes, perhaps they could contribute by sharing them in the school and beyond.

Room for Improvement?

The website works seamlessly on my MacBook Pro, across all browsers, and on smartphones and tablets alike. There is an app available, both on Google Play and the App Store, but it feels quite clunky to me, and as such I prefer not to use it.