Graphic+Organizers

Bubbl.us

Bubbl.us is a free Web 2.0 tools that gives students the opportunity to create simple flow charts. Critical thinking skills are cultivated when mind mapping tools are used to analyze new or difficult topics. Mind maps and other graphic organizers are types of visual thinking methods that graphically represent ideas and information.

Educational research has proven that these visual learning methods are some of the very best ways to stimulate thinking, increase comprehension, organization and learning.

Bubbl.us is simple and easy to use.

Benefits of using Bubblus in the classroom:
 * Easy to use
 * Doesn't require an account
 * Gives students the opportunity to organize thoughts
 * Gives students an opportunity to problem solve
 * Encourages collaboration
 * Incorporates Multiple Intelligences
 * Great for visual learners

Classroom Ideas:
 * Organizing an essay or paper
 * Problem-Solving
 * Brainstorming
 * Compare/Constrast
 * Allowing students to examine relationships
 * Guiding students in demonstrating their thinking process
 * Encouraging students to organize essential concepts and ideas
 * Making it clear how to break apart a story into the main elements (intro, rising action, climax, etc.)

Create a free account to save and email links to Bubbl.us pages.

Bubbl.us Link Bubbl.us Video Tutorial Library

Popplet

Popplet is also a Web 2.0 graphic organizer tool that allows students to visualize ideas and brainstorm. Popplet can be used to create graphic organizers and timelines. Students can share popplets and collaborate in real time.

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Poplet Educational Resources
 * Popplet has an APP for iPhone, iPad, iPod

Piclits

Ways you may use Piclit in your classroom! It is fun and easy to use. Select a picture, drag in words to go with the picture.

> Select words for a picture that would describe the opposite of what the picture is trying to communicate. PicLit
 * Look at other ways people have used the same picture you selected. Compare to yours.
 * After reading a story, poem, or book find a picture that you think would be a scene somewhere in the book. Describe.
 * Science teachers - find pictures that describe weather in nature. Use descriptive words to show an understanding of the weather condition.
 * Rate someone else's piclit. Be sure to explain your rating.
 * Find a piclit in the gallery with some misspelling or grammatical error.
 * High School - Select words you think an elementary student would use to describe the picture.
 * Social Studies - find pictures that you think could have come from the area of the world you might be studying. Be sure you can support your choice with facts.
 * Use any of the pictures as writing prompts. (a great idea for blogging)
 * Create a series of piclits to assemble into a gallery around a topic.
 * Select a picture and tie it to a historical event studied during that marking period.
 * Geometry-Find shapes in pictues, identify them, and define them.
 * Freestyle with foreign language words that describe or relate to the picture.