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Social Bookmarking Site EvaluationBy C++ Students

Hallie NicholsonKim PrattNatalya Subbotina

+ Symbaloo EDU

Available Features One web mix can contain everything you need to share

with students for a lesson Offers sample web mixes to show you how to use the

site Can add widgets (like weather, calculator, dictionary) to

your web mix Really easy set up (Quick Start option)

+Creating Your Own

• Signup Link• http://edu.symbaloo.com/registerUser.form

• Information Needed to Sign Up• Username• E-mail Address• Password

+Screenshots

CustomWeb Mix

+Screenshots

Widgets

+Screenshots Preloaded

Web Mix(for Teachers)

+Screenshots

Educational News SitesHeadlines

+Completed SiteURL: http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/social-studies-8-hms

+Our Site Rating

1-10 rating (10 is best)

Ease of use: 8

Technical Support/Documentation:

10

Visual appeal: 10

Available features: 9

Appropriateness for classroom:

10

Level of Advertising: 10 (none!)

Overall Rating: 9.9

+Narrative

We love Symbaloo and highly recommend it! Though Kim and Hallie had never heard of it, Natalya recommended that we evaluate it for this project.

We found it to be very visually pleasing and easy to use. We were able to set up a great Web Mix in a matter of minutes using the Quick Start feature.

Because it is so visually appealing, students would probably like it more than some of the other social bookmarking sites.

It’s simple and the layout is intuitive, so students wouldn’t have trouble navigating and using the site.

The widgets are LEGIT! They are reminiscent (in design and functionality) of apps on iPhones, which would be familiar to students.