Popplet Lite (app and website) - Popplet Lite provides a blank canvas to capture your ideas (popples) and organize them in your own way. You can add text, images and drawings to popples and can email or export completed Popplets. Great for mind mapping/brainstorming, use for story boarding and more!
To learn more, check out these tutorial links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4EBm48rqBU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGBgT3QqzSs
Examples:
http://popplet.com/app/#/489 - History
http://popplet.com/app/#/1377866 - Science
http://popplet.com/app/#/1214159 - Timeline
http://popplet.com/app/#/1090088 - Timeline
http://popplet.com/app/#/441799 - Great Gatsby
Lesson Plans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzwNhpCknds - Using Popplet for Character Analysis
http://blog.popplet.com/physics-chemistry-geography-and-beyond-popplet-in-the-science-classroom/ - Popplet in the Science Classroom
Ideas for using popplet in the classroom:
- Presenting historical events: use the timeline option with the lines and multi-media to create a historical model for an event.
- Learning a new language: Mind map is a great way to learn a language because it utilizes both sides of the brain effectively with the " pictures+ words + lines" features.
- A brainstorming "Creative thinking" tool : you can use it to trigger creative thinking in a workspace that can be expanded , recording class notes , or the generated ideas in a brainstorming session.
- Project Based Learning : popplet can be used for group work, with the add user option, multiple space for many users, and the ability to add elements like pictures, text and videos will be an effective platform for project based learning.
- Beyond the classroom walls / Parents / Global: Students can share their work with parents or other students from another country in real-time.
- Storytelling: Timelines will mutlimedia can be used to tell a story.
- Summarizing : Students can summarize ideas from a book or an essay they read in the classroom, teachers can also present the main ideas of a lesson.
- Organizing: Mind map is also a great way to organize thoughts from a brain stroming session.
- A student e-portfolio.
- ScrapBook/ School or class photo albums /Posters : popplet final projects can be exported as JPG or PDF files and you can also print it.
- Introducing/ presenting new topics.
- Producing documentaries
- Differentiation / Visual learners.
- Planning for a unit / essay.
- Feedback : using the comment option for commenting on generated ideas/ boxes.
- Homework and assignment : Print it, or use it online and fill in the blank.
To Share: In Popplet Lite, make sure your entire Popplet shows on your screen, choose the export option and choose “save JPEG” option, this will save it to your camera roll. Go to you Google Drive (still on your iPad) and top the "+" in the upper right corner and choose "Upload Photos or Videos" from the menu. Choose the "camera roll" and tap your Popplet picture, then tap the check mark in the blue box just under the "+" (this will load the image into you Drive.) Tap on the "i" next to your picture and tap "Get Link" from the menu. This will give you the link for your completion form!
To learn more, check out these tutorial links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4EBm48rqBU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGBgT3QqzSs
Examples:
http://popplet.com/app/#/489 - History
http://popplet.com/app/#/1377866 - Science
http://popplet.com/app/#/1214159 - Timeline
http://popplet.com/app/#/1090088 - Timeline
http://popplet.com/app/#/441799 - Great Gatsby
Lesson Plans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzwNhpCknds - Using Popplet for Character Analysis
http://blog.popplet.com/physics-chemistry-geography-and-beyond-popplet-in-the-science-classroom/ - Popplet in the Science Classroom
Ideas for using popplet in the classroom:
- Presenting historical events: use the timeline option with the lines and multi-media to create a historical model for an event.
- Learning a new language: Mind map is a great way to learn a language because it utilizes both sides of the brain effectively with the " pictures+ words + lines" features.
- A brainstorming "Creative thinking" tool : you can use it to trigger creative thinking in a workspace that can be expanded , recording class notes , or the generated ideas in a brainstorming session.
- Project Based Learning : popplet can be used for group work, with the add user option, multiple space for many users, and the ability to add elements like pictures, text and videos will be an effective platform for project based learning.
- Beyond the classroom walls / Parents / Global: Students can share their work with parents or other students from another country in real-time.
- Storytelling: Timelines will mutlimedia can be used to tell a story.
- Summarizing : Students can summarize ideas from a book or an essay they read in the classroom, teachers can also present the main ideas of a lesson.
- Organizing: Mind map is also a great way to organize thoughts from a brain stroming session.
- A student e-portfolio.
- ScrapBook/ School or class photo albums /Posters : popplet final projects can be exported as JPG or PDF files and you can also print it.
- Introducing/ presenting new topics.
- Producing documentaries
- Differentiation / Visual learners.
- Planning for a unit / essay.
- Feedback : using the comment option for commenting on generated ideas/ boxes.
- Homework and assignment : Print it, or use it online and fill in the blank.
To Share: In Popplet Lite, make sure your entire Popplet shows on your screen, choose the export option and choose “save JPEG” option, this will save it to your camera roll. Go to you Google Drive (still on your iPad) and top the "+" in the upper right corner and choose "Upload Photos or Videos" from the menu. Choose the "camera roll" and tap your Popplet picture, then tap the check mark in the blue box just under the "+" (this will load the image into you Drive.) Tap on the "i" next to your picture and tap "Get Link" from the menu. This will give you the link for your completion form!