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Symbaloo

Principal function(s): BookmarkingIndividual workWhole classTeacherStudentYou Supply

Symbaloo is a bookmarking tool that organises web links into customisable tiles on a dashboard. Users then organise, save, and access bookmarks visually through a grid-based interface, having their preferred or most visited websites always a click away. Symbaloo is completely free to use and was founded by Tim Has, Koen Dantuma, and Robert Broeders. Evaluation: Symbaloo is a useful tool to customise browser interfaces, organising and saving relevant websites to keep information at hand in a layout that is intuitive and easy to navigate. For teachers, a great way to use Symbaloo would be to create a personalised dashboard with websites that students should use for a specific task and then share it with them.

Cost: Free.

Website: https://www.symbaloo.com/

  

Categories

Type Of Interaction

  • Individual work
  • Individual work

Skills

Content

  • You supply

Usability

Interface User-friendliness/complexity of the tool´s interface

Intuitive, easy to navigate.

Time efficiency Time needed for mastering the „how-to“ of the tool and a production of a task

Medium.

Interface language(s) The number of languages in which the tool is currently available/adaptable to

English, Spanish and Dutch.

Respect for privacy Does the tool require registration? Who can see my data? Can I remain anonymous?

Medium. Symbaloo collects personal information, including names, email addresses, countries, and language for the operation, support, and improvement of their products and services, together with user customisation and communication. It also gathers cookies for different purposes, among which marketing, and shares some information with third parties for reasonable purposes. Symbaloo also features advertisements. It has put into place diverse security safeguards, including encryption and access controls. Users can manage cookies to a certain extent and can manage their data through their account settings, with the possibility of requesting data or objecting to data processing. Symbaloo states compliance with the GDPR. See more here and here.

Saving work for future use Possiblity to save your or others´ work for reuse/reproduction

Yes, with an account.

Tailorability (If so, how?) Possibility of the tool to be used for a range of different activities (e.g. to what extent you can organize a project assignment with a central activity based on this tool)

Medium; users can bookmark any website into their Symbaloos.

Interactivity

Engagement

Collaboration

Communication

Technical requirements

Installation required?

No; it is a browser-based tool.

Compatibility/ Operating System

Any browser.

Other technical requirements