Online Brainstorming tools

An Introduction to bubbl.us.com

Nic Hennephof

Teach at Wesley Intermediate.Wesley is a Decile 1 school in Mt Roskill AK. Wesley is made up of mostly Pacific Is students. 3rd year teacher.Lead teacher for our ICT contract.First time presenter, be gentle.

WarningThis is workshop where we will all be learning and adapting these tools to suit our own students and situations.I just like to find exciting programs and experiment with them.If I find them fun, then hopefully my students will too, (and you).

OverviewIntroduction, My problems and how bubbl.us solved them.Room 5 and their family trees.How the program works.How to get it off the screen.Playtime. Where to next.. Webspiration. Exploreatree.Mindmeister.Dabbleboard.Text to mind map.Offline alternatives.Playtime and discussion.END !!!!!

If this is not for you please leave and go try something else, I will not be offended. It cost a lot for you to be here.

ProblemsI don’t have Inspiration $$$I can’t download free programs to the server (any actually)All students needed to be able to access it at the same time.We needed to be able to save our work.I wanted it to be super easy. Family tree making sites Blocked.

Bubbl.us is the answer to all these and I’ll show you why.

Discussion

For the next 5 minutes discuss with the people next to you talk about some of the restrictions you face at your own school when using ICT.

Family trees As part of our Inquiry unit in Term 1 “All About Me” we planned to have the students create family trees.

The templates I found were boring and I wanted to integrate new ICT skills.

Take a look at theseAfter 1 lesson the students went off on their own and created these family trees. Some took it upon themselves to go and research at home about their family. My page

How the program works

The layout http://bubbl.us/

Don’t just push print Click on menu Click on Export Open using a picture

editing program Copy and paste into

word to manipulate Now print

Version 2.0bubbl.us 2.0 beta

Playtime

Give it a go, have a play.

I’ll give you 15 mins to have a play while it is still fresh in your minds.

Webspiration

Webspiration

Exploratree

Exploratree

Mindmeister

http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show/31429836?cb=1254950563468

Dabbleboard

Dabbleboard

Text to mind map

http://www.text2mindmap.com/

Offline alternativesVUE

http://vue.tufts.edu/index.cfm

Freemind

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download#Download

Experimentation http://bubbl.us/ http://mywebspiration.com/http://www.exploratree.org.uk/http://www.mindmeister.com/http://www.text2mindmap.com/http://dabbleboard.com

I don’t know the needs of your students so log on and play with the different sites/programs and imagine how you could use them in your school.

Discussion

Lets talk about what you have discovered and share some ideas you have come up with.

We might all have new activities to start next term.

Questions

Youtube

Nicholas.hennephof@wesleyintermediate.

school.nz

Thanks for listening