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It is our dream to make Symbaloo the easiest starting point on the Internet. It's that simple; you could have thought of it yourself! Symbaloo is an ancient Greek verb meaning 'gathering' 'assembling'. It perfectly reflects the mission of the company. Symbaloo is an idea of Tim Has and has the mission to make the web more accessible. It was founded together with Koen Dantuma and Robert Broeders early 2007. Since June 2007 Symbaloo is available in The Netherlands, Spain, France, the UK and the US in beta.

I've been using symbaloo and in particular edu.symbaloo.com to share a many types of web based toolsand resources with my students. Truly a great and useful tool.

track your work on the internet!!!

Good article on ways to research using the internet. Embedded videos

Plagiarism - what's the best way to deal with it?

The speed with one can get information from the Internet also makes people feel that this information is there to be "taken" (literally).Plagiarism is a very important aspect that needs to be addressed by us, teachers. This year I had a student that to write "her" composition she first copied THE WHOLE TEXT IN PORTUGUESE from the Internet and then she used a google translator. The theme? Festa Junina. Unbelievable!

loosely organizing the net

how to organize the net

* Create quizzes that can be downloaded onto mobile phones.\n * Ideal for educational content.\n * Students can now study anywhere anytime.\n * Works with most modern mobile phones.\n * Once the quiz is downloaded, an internet connection is not needed.\n * Download directly to the phone or via a computer.

Great internet browser designed for autistic children.

"A flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform, and web application platform. It is a Structured Wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet, extranet or the Internet. Users without programming skills can create web applications. Developers can extend the functionality of TWiki with Plugins. TWiki fosters information flow within an organization, lets distributed teams work together seamlessly and productively, and eliminates the one-webmaster syndrome of outdated intranet content."

Great tool to download online videos in case you do not have Internet access to use them in the classroom.

Clicker is the complete guide to Internet Television. Our mission is to make it simple for you to find the right show, right now. As massive amounts of programming move online, consumers are entering a world of infinite choices, all on-demand. Great! Finding the show you want to watch? Painful. Thousands of episodes from thousands of shows are housed on thousands of different sites, mixed among billions of random clips and videos. Clicker catalogs all broadcast programming online, along with TV-quality Web originals, from these silos and delivers them in one seamless, organized experience so you can easily discover what's available to watch (and what isn't) online, where to watch it, and what's worth watching

In a world where anyone with an internet connection can access, create and share information, opinions and beliefs, it has become increasingly important that students are not only able to assess the credibility of sources but also to look more deeply at the underlying motivations, beliefs and bias of the creator.

Some ways to make you site mobile friendly

Save For Later Put articles, videos or pretty much anything into Pocket. Save directly from your browser or from apps like Twitter, Flipboard, Pulse and Zite. Ways to Pocket: View When Ready If it's in Pocket, it's on your phone, tablet or computer. You don't even need an Internet connection.

As educators we are faced with the challenge of teaching students to efficiently use the Internet to find and use information. Searching for information and making sense of it is a process that involves critical thinking and it is an important skill. Fortunately, there are many free digital tools available to help students efficiently sift through an overwhelming abundance of web content to find the relevant and reliable information they need. This post will explore some digital resources to provide educators with tools to help all students become savvy searchers and independent learners.

Reminds me a lot of dropbox but for media and it has unlimited space (so they say). Works quite effortlessly.