Mind Mapping with

Bubbl.us
Kathy Bryant and LeeAnn
Needham
www.wordle.net
 Mind Mapping
• Tony Buzan
• late 1960's
• graphical technique of taking notes
or visualizing thoughts or ideas.
• structured around one central
concept, word or idea, with branches
and sub-branches of related ideas.
 Move Beyond Chalk and
Talk
• 60-65% of your students are Visual
learners
• And need greater visual support
• Tactile learners need to do things to
learn.
Some available tools
Bubbl.us
Registration (or not)
 Try the tool
• Create Topic
• Create Siblings and Children
• Drag map, drag bubbls
• Add connection lines
• Change bubbl colors
• Blow up a bubbl
• Zoom in and out
Geography of the United States
Regions
• 5th grade
• Small group research
• One region/state per group
• 1 class mind map/1 mind map per
group
• Final product: Power Point, brochure,
etc.
 Other classroom
Applications
• Expert Groups
• Center Word Family Phonics
• Science Food Chains
• Teacher project or lesson planning
• Vocabulary Bundles
• Parts of Speech
• Cause and Effect
• The People in My Community
 Stumbling Blocks
• Internet Connections
• 1 computer classrooms
• Not a brainstorming web
• Bubbl beta
• Weekly access to computer lab
The preceding presentation
can also be seen at:

http://prezi.com/2y_rbzbfxwz
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