Popplet - a mind map maker

Throughout my own education I have considered myself a “visual learner”. I always found mind-maps and diagrams very useful because I could remember the information by displaying it in a visual format.

If you want to read about mind mapping, click HERE

There are many online mind maps makers but Popplet is one of the simplest.

Watch this video to have a better idea of this online tool:

Adavantages:

The site is clean and simple. Ideal to use with children

Popplet gives you the possibility of organising and synthesising information in more sophisticated ways than if it is just a list of information on a page.

Popplet inspires creativity because its colours and interface.

It is very easy to upload images (or grab them from Flickr) and add video.

You can turn a PowerPoint into a Popplet.

One of Popplet's best features is the fact that it is easy to share and collaborate. You can invite people to collaborate, send a link or copy some simple HTML and embed my Popplet in a blog, wiki or website. In Popplet, sharing allows users to make their popplet public and viewable by anyone via a URL link, whether they are a popplet user or not.

Viewing finished Popplet is also very straightforward. A single mouse click allows users to zoom in on an area of the graphic they’d like to examine in more detail.

Disadvantages:

Too many things are missing:

variety of shapes

abilities to group popplets, bend connections or manipulate where connections are attached to the Popplet

a spell checker and the “standard” word correction engine

Students cannot use the same account to work in different compuers.

Possible Activities

Brainstorming

Group work in the classroom

Alternative to PowerPoint

Revision

Example:

9-year-old kids using the book Kids' Box 3 were revising vocabulary related to family and present continous verb tense. First, they revised the vocabulary in class, then they went to the computer room to explore the tool. Finally, they created these two Popplets:

My first Meme (pingback and trackback)

When did I start using Internet? I think it coincides with the economic change in Argentina ( 1 peso = 1 dollar) in the late 90's. I started using e-mailing. I have friedns and family living abroad or in other cities, and they usually complain about the fact that I am pretty lazy for writing letters and going to the post office. So, e-mailing was a solution for me. A really turning point took place in 2001 when I was invited to an on line course on " How to evalute websites" carried out by another Argentinean - Prof. Norma Scagnoli- working at the University of Illinois. She introduced me into the virtual world and there I met one of my dearest cyberfriends: Prof. Dafne Gonzalez. From that moment my virtual life started. I bagan exploring the net and that same year I opened my firs e-group: English Virtual Community. My first steps on the Internet were really awful. I used to have dial up connection, so my experience was a bit poor. I could not spend much time on line and...

Susana Canelo said…

Great ideas Nelba !!A new tool in your hands is always a great discovery...:)

31 July 2012 at 20:15

Anonymous said…

Thank you, Susan for your comment! I hope you will visit La Plata soon :-)
Hugs, Nelba

30 August 2012 at 18:58

Online Diploma said…

thanks for this information...i love it

30 October 2012 at 05:09

Pankaj said…

That's really a very nice information...

6 December 2012 at 07:06