I wish I had known about Bubbl.us earlier. I've been looking for a tool like this for a while now. (And this one is free.) It makes mindmapping fun! It's a great tool to encourage children to brainstorm collaboratively. Having them create their own mindmaps gives children the opportunity to make the topic connections for themselves - it encourages them to link their ideas together. It is also a great tool for whole class summarys. I can see myself using it on my interactive whiteboard - can't wait to get back to school to give it a go ( Oh how sad is that!) It can also be used as an effective assessment tool in pre and post testing.
Glogster is also a great way to encourage online collaboration between students. A simple way to stimulate creativity - especially for those students who don't have the best "fine motor skills". The glogster education registered area is a great way for teachers to keep track of what students have created. Not quite sure how it would fit into my Year 2 classroom - but I'm sure with more time I'll find a way! Actually I just thought - I might show it to our Year 6 class and get the children to poster themselves ready for graduation night. I found that Glogster is a bit slow to run. (Don't know whether it's Glogster being slow or my frustrating new computer that my husband bought for me to stop the fights over the who gets the laptop - I want my old computer back!!)
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