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Symbaloo, a smart bookmarking tool

What is Symbaloo?

As they say in their webpage. "Symbaloo is a personal startpage that allows you to easily navigate the web and compile your favorite site all in to one visual interface. Save your bookmarks in the cloud and access them from anywhere with any device".
You can create a free account on Symbaloo and start adding your favourite blocks (tiles) on your own Symbaloo. Choose an icon for each one and publish it.

If you find a Symbaloo made by other user, don't hesitate, take it and edit as if it was yours. That is the remake culture!
You can embed your own Symbaloos in your webpage or blog.

In my opinion, it has a flaw, the fact that you cannot create a colaborative Symbaloo with your students or other teachers, because you can not invite other users to edit it. What a pity!

Diigo: Social Bookmarking

You can also get your Diigo icon in your Chrome search bar, looking for DIIGO extension in Chrome . Look at the image below.

Diigo is a very interesting tool to save useful URLs with a click from your computer or your mobile phone (download Diigo app from Google Store to your smartphone. It is very easy)

Twitter for teacher

Twitter is a new way of communicating. We say "new" but in fact more than 255 million users of Twitter are active in the net monthly.

As a teacher, we should, at least, know how Twitter works. Most of our teenager students use Twitter to communicate. Besides, it is a rich source of teaching materials and an interactive platform for professionals. 

Create your account and start tweeting!

Add-ons for Drive

In our seminar we have been seeing some of the add-ons that can be useful for our teaching practice.

• The Thesaurus is a good tool when writing a text in English.
• Mind-meister helps us create mind-maps in an easy and fast way.
• With Texthelp study skills we can underline important parts of a text and share with our students. 

Apart from these add-ons, you can chat online with other people that share that document with you and comment on words underlined by you.

VOICETHREAD

QR codes

They come to us from Japan where they are very common. QR is short for Quick Response (they can be read quickly by a cell phone). They are used to take a piece of information from a transitory media and put it in to your mobile phone or tablet. Previously you need to download a qr code reader to your telephone from Google Play, for example QR droid. 
We can generate a qr code from a plain text, a url, a sms, a telephone, a location etc. We can use some qr code generator free from the Internet (unitag, qrcode kaywa).

Here I let you a prezzi presentation where you can see school project with qr codes