Symbaloo reminds me of an iPhone home screen and how you can cluster apps together into a collection. It's pretty neat! The free account provides some pre-built collections like Google tools, popular shopping tiles, social media, webspaces, and a Symbaloo help center. Bookmarks are called "Symbaloo Tiles" and they are saved onto what they call a "Webmix". It's sort of like bookmarking your favorites on a browser toolbar -- except you don't run out of space. I don't know if that happens to anyone else but I can usually only fit 12 or so websites on my toolbar!
Symbaloo is similar to Padlet in some ways but more for websites and links, whereas Padlet will all you to add all sort of content like uploads, screen recordings, videos, etc. Both are very helpful organization tools. One downside to Symbaloo is you cannot share your webmix with the free version 😕. I might keep building a webmix for my own personal usage but would really love it if my collection could be shared. Aside from my personal usage, I did find it interesting to watch about how educators could create learning pathways for students. Check it out!
Thanks for sharing the video, it helps illustrate the capabilities of the tool well. I love the idea of organizing learning like a board game, I can think of a lot of learners that would be engaged by that! I agree that not being able to share is limiting!
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