Using the
personal learning environment when you are teaching made easier your lessons.
You can have all the resources you need for your planned activities in your
Symbaloo (which is a Personal Learning Environment).
With
Symbaloo you create your webmix and you can have all the tools (the buttons for
the tools are called TILES) that you need to use during the lesson but being
effective and practical. Without Symbaloo, you have to switch on the computer,
write the web page, search something and then lock for the most appropriate
link. Symbaloo provides you the option of going directly to the correspondent
link without losing time.
I have my
Symbaloo separated in different categories. Colours and sections in the web mix
separate these categories. As you can see in the following image, we can find different
categories:
1-
ORANGE
CATHEGORY; here is included all the professional tools that I use or check
before teaching my students. I also put some links of web pages that I didn’t
know about them before and I feel they are an appropriate resource a necessary
in my Symbaloo.
2-
GREEN
CATHEGORY: in the green category, we can find some blogs that I follow related
to the education or some interesting topics like the use of the ICT.
3-
BLUE
CATHEGORY: All the blues tiles are useful tools, like the calendar, the
calculator, weather forecast, translator, and the access to the google page. To
sum up, all the tools that we need to have them but they are not 100%
necessary.
4-
RED
CATHEGORY: here we will find links related to the news, la vanguardia, mundo
deportivo and 324 to be updated with the news here in Spain and CNN and BBC to
have access to the international news.
5-
WHITE
CATHEGORY: here is my social part of the webmix. I have here my facebook
account, twitter (which are not related with the education) and Linkedin and
MyEF (which are more specific and related with my professional life).
6-
PINK
CATHEGORY: tiles related with travelling are coloured in pink. This part is not
useful for my profession, but I am using symbaloo always so I have everything I
need here.
7-
BROWN
CATHEGORY: everything related to buy something on-line are coloured in brown,
they are not belonging to my professional life but is very useful to have them
in my own symbaloo.
In my
opinion, symbaloo is a very good resource and I like using it a lot. It is fast
and useful and I am using it everyday so I don’t have to loose time in typing
the web and finding exactly what I want to look for. This is a very good resource which I have
never been talked about and it is one of the best resources I discover in these
years studying as a future teacher.