SymbalooEDU SETDA PresentationOctober, 2012

SymbalooEDU

The Easy Way to Manage Your Resources

helps educators and studentssafely curate and organize the best of the web forpersonalized learning. 

Our visual interface is the reason students and educators

find it incredibly engaging and why over 1 million userschoose SymbalooEDU.

We look forward to sharing our vision for state-widepartnerships, boosting student achievement and

teachereffectiveness, with innovative technology leaders.

“SymbalooEDU is currently free so why should a state be excited to get it for free too?”

The state will get a premium version that allows you to be in control of the resource management system.

Benefits of a Premium State SymbalooEDU

• You get you own URL for example http://ca.symbaloo.com for California and your own state app.

• You get your own admin panel to organize what will be shown on default webmixes. Along with the option to lock down webmixes to keep users from making changes. Users have the option to edit unlocked webmixes and create new webmixes.

• Geo data of usage from Google analytics. In the near future, there will be more detailed statistics about the usage of tiles, webmixes or time spent on SymbalooEDU based on teacher, school or district levels.

• We provide a social platform to easily connect you with other teachers in and outside of the state regarding best practices and important resources. You stay connected with a webmix gallery willed with over 100,000 educational webmixes.

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Administrative Panel for Control and Reports

• Control what is shown on opening your portal• Limit access to resources• Facilitate the type of sharing you want to encourage• Determine which resources and districts are most

effective

To see how easy it is to administer a SymbalooEDUPremium Solution, watch our 5 minuteinstructional video here: http://bit.ly/ThUx0E

How free is free?

Costs:

First three years:Free use of SymbalooEDU PremiumMutual Agreement on plan to train % of teachers over three years through 4-6 hour courses at $25 per teacher to ensure full features of SymbalooEDU are understood and state pilot is successful

After three years:$2 per teacher, 4-6 hour courses available for $35 per teacher or revert back to SymbalooEDU Free with no loss of resources, 4-6 hour courses available for $45 per teacher

What Makes SymbalooEDU Special?

Touch screens are taking over the world and Windows 8 is Metro-style that is Tile/icon based too.

First of all SymbalooEDU is visual, available on multiple devices and highly customizable

SymbalooEDU’s Clean Interface

SymbalooEDU appeals to all levels of tech savvy teachers because it resembles the current smart phones, iPads and tablets, which are highly intuitive. Students also like the app look of SymbalooEDU unlike Pinterest, Diigo, Delicious or…

We always test new features with the “twofinger generation” to see if they understand

andfind it useful.

“Start Simple” is our tagline and that’s what weattempt to stay true to! 

All other resources are generally text heavy, not

completely EDU focused and don’t appeal to alllevels of users.

SymbalooEDU’s Ease of Use

We have a state version with a management system that is in the lead of

Resource Management Systems for educators.

Our roadmap is fully focused on education and soon we will introduce chat, and voice command, social statistics and awarding/gamification system along with anything you tell us to develop that makes sense!

Best State Education Resource Platform

What are the advantages of SymbalooEDU forthe state?

• No investment in the system

• A proven PD program that is flexible to the knowledge levels of allteachers.

• Management system to encourage and control resource sharing between teachers.

• Analytics from management system to see what schools are falling behind

• Natural communication platform through forum, social interaction, special blue header link, etc.

• A logo and choice of URL.

• An expert group of teachers to implement the default settings.

• A training program to get teachers started

• Listen then improve and keeping this up as a continued process.

What does it take to start a SymbalooEDU state version?

We simply want to build the ultimate educationalresource sharing system to move educationforward with technology.

Why is SymbalooEDU doing this?

Contact us for more information:

E: edu@ymbaloo.comP: 949-478-3559W: http://symbalooEDU.com

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