Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Using the symbaloo that I created

Tomorrow is the big day.  I have grade 8 social studies students coming into the library do do research.  The teacher gave me some links that he wants me to use.  I looked through them all & create a symbalpp page for the research.  I checked to make sure that they all worked. (two of the ones he gave me were not found).  I added a few more & an eBook from Gale.  I met with the teacher today & we see to be ready for tomorrow.  I hope the classes go great.

5/31/14. We used symbaloo on that lesson and the teachers had different reactions.  One commented that it was too many clicks to get to the information.  I disagreed.  Everything is nicely labeled.  I had taken his webpage parts and put it in a symbaloo link on the library page.  I checked to make sure all the links worked before I added them to my symbaloo.  (half of his links were not working). This really saved time in the actual class.  The other teacher was thrilled that it was all ready and that I went the extra step. I still have symbaloo as my main page in my webpage and I think it looks impressive.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

App paloozi

I'm back.  It's been awhile since I have posted here.  I really need to do more posting.  I had to figure out how to even get on here again.
I spent a snow day working on App paloozi.  I liked the Symbaloo so much that I revamped my webpage with it on it.  The only problem is that sometimes when the link is clicked on, the symbaloo page was not mine that I created.  I think I fixed it this week.  I updated the link on my webpage & noticed that every time that we get on it, it works!!
I am looking forward to see if people use it.  I color coded some of the boxes.  Red is for newspapers.  It looks so much more organized now.
Julie