Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Brainstorming and Graphic Organizer

Do you have your students brainstorm or create a graphic organizer on a topic or idea?

Then this site is for you! Try out bubbl.us It allows any person to create different bubbles with text and link to other bubble. You can have several layers and arrows connecting each bubble that you create.

I have used this site myself with my technology classes and most seemed to really enjoy the flexibility of the program. One minor problem is that is blocked currently at school. I am working on seeing what we could do about that. My students completed it outside of class and then were able to save it as a pdf to turn in or access while they were at school. PLEASE don't let this small hiccup keep you from trying something new.

Below are a couple of screen shots of what bubbl.us looks like when using it.
This is what the program itself looks like.

Below are the directions for having students create a bubble map and then save it as a PDF so that they can save and submit or use it during class or while at St. James.



Once they get to here, have them click the arrow by PDF and choose SAVE AS PDF and they are good to go!


So, have you tried it? Will you try it? :) OR Do you have another online graphic organizer site that you use with your classes? Please share it in the comment section below! :)



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