What’s a Popplet?
Sunday Sit, Sip, and “Sync” ~ 5-27-2012
A picture is worth a thousand words,
but better yet, is an embedded “Popplet”.
This is a “sneak preview” of our newest Recess TEC presentation that will soon be part of our “portfolio”.
We just received notice that we will, once again, be presenting at the 19th Annual Illinois and Education & Technology Conference (IETC) in Springfield in November.
We’re always looking for new things to share, and this year will be no exception.
It’s hard to believe that Web 2.0 has been around for almost eight years,
and the amount of tools that are available to “The Tech Savvy Teacher” has exploded. Technology understands that education is in need of new, better, free, safe, and simple tools to bring teaching AND learning into our daily lives.
Popplet is one of those tools. It’s one of many “mind-mapping” sites and is also available as an app. What exactly IS a Popplet? Their motto is “see what you think together”, and if you click on the little fuchsia box in our Popplet, it will take you to the Popplet website where you can see examples and have all of your questions answered.
There’s “an app for that”, the full version costing $4.99 and a free Popplet Lite version. We have found, however, that it is much easier to build and manipulate “Popplets” on the computer.
Once built, your Popplets can be shared through Facebook, Twitter, email, the Popplet apps, a link, as an embedded Popplet, or via the username of Popplet members. You can also export it as a jpeg or a pdf file.
Once a Popplet has been embedded, any changes are automatically generated when the page is refreshed. We love “simple”.
So, check it out.
With the universal symbol for “full-screen” in the lower right-hand corner, you can take a closer look.
This might be a “Summer Project” that is fun to use as you build and plan for new ways to infuse technology into next fall’s curriculum.