Arrange Your Classroom Online!

The other day, I published a post with an amazing classroom (click here if you want to view that post).  because I'm sure that these first days of school without students, most of you are thinking of how to arrange the furniture and the spaces in your classroom. Having a well organized environment will help teachers and students to feel more comfortable in class and this will promote concentration and motivation towards the learning.

Today, I would like to share with you 'Classroom Architect' which is an excellent tool to arrange the furniture and the spaces of your classroom and see the result at a glance.

I encourage you to try it because it's very easy to use!
And please, tell me if you have found it useful!

Bookmark Organizers - Symbaloo

Along the same lines as the previous post, I realized that most of my colleagues often have trouble finding links to some specific webpages. Sometimes they find an interesting webpage they would like to use in the classroom, but they aren't able to access it when they need to because they may have bookmarked it in their favourites at home or they may have written it on a piece of paper and they lost it.

For this reason, I want to share with you an online application that is very useful for organizing your links. There are many different applications of this type available online, such as Delicious, Diigo... but my favourite is Symbaloo. 

Symbaloo is an online visual bookmark organizer that is very easy to use. 

Some of the advantages of this application are:

- It is free, you just have to register.

- It works online. You don't have to download any program and you can access your Symbaloo wherever you are. You just need a computer with a working internet connection.

- It is organized by different Webmixes (that work like desktops, which you can organize as you choose, e.x. by topic: Math, Science, Language...). Each Webmix has a grid of boxes where you can drag and drop your links.

- You can customize each box with colours in order to organize your links and recognize them  at a glance (e.x. blue boxes could be related to grammar, red boxes to stories, etc.).

Now, I would like to know about you!
How do you organize the links to your favourite webpages? Do you use online applications or do you prefer other more traditional ways?