Symbaloo

Symbaloo is one cool tool.  It's a great way for students to organize their online world.  I really think this is a great application.  Symbaloo is a website that allows you to place your favorite things from the web on tiles.  These tiles act as links to directly connect you to whatever you'd like.  It's sort of like a visual bookmark.  I think this is a really cool way to connect student's with their time spent online.  It's free and easy to use, two more big pluses.

I can definitely see myself using Symbaloo in the future and also encouraging my students to use it as well.  Being a Mac user I have something like that very similarly built into my Safari web browser.  However, Symbaloo offers more options and could really be useful, if used correctly.  However, most school distracts have PC's, and if this was something that was downloaded to all those machines, it could become habit for students to log in and automatically be brought into their Symbaloo account.  This could help them with keeping track of research they do, and other important websites.  It would only work for middle-high school aged students I think though.  Elementary kids would have a tough time utilizing it to it's potential.  Overall Symbaloo is a uniquely applicable tool in todays technological world.