Brainstorm and share ideas with Popplet

Popplet is another online Brainstorming tool, joining the ranks of other tools such as Wallwisher, SpiderScribe, and Grapholite

A popplet is a big pinboard that you can put boxes or “popples” onto. A popple is container that holds text, photos, and other interesting things such as Google Map or YouTube video. The whole thing was very simple to use, it was very easy to get started.

You can also upload media from your desktop to your board. Popplet offers a browser bookmarklet that you can use to add content from other webpages to your Popplet pages. An iPad app is also available.

If you want to share your Popplet with others, you can add other users via email – they will then have access to the board andcan add to it. You can also embed Popplets into your blog or Wiki.

It’s also possible to export your finished Popplet as a pdf or jpg file which would also make it handy for sharing across a VLE or inserting into other documents.

Like other brainstorming tools, for teachers this could be another tool for creating revision mind maps or asking pupils to show how much they know about a given topic at the beginning/end of a unit. Or simply for collating ideas. Here are some more ideas for using Wallwisher and similar tools.

thanks to Greg Miller for the link to this site.

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