30 days of webtools #17: Use bubbl.us to create simple mindmaps

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why mindmap?</span></b><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21.983333587646484px;"><br />Mindmapping is a great thinking tool. It has been suggested that this visual technique can improve learning and study efficiency up to 15% over conventional note-taking. It is also a very popular planning technique and definitely something one should introduce in every classroom.  It is a great way to brainstorm and generate ideas. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; line-height: 21.983333587646484px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21.97222137451172px;"><b>Use bubbl.us to mindmap</b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I like about <b>bubbl.us</b> is that it is a simple non-elaborate mindmapping tool that is easy to catch on to, and is useful for a younger class.  It can be accessed at <a href="https://bubbl.us/">https://bubbl.us/</a>.  This is what a completed bubbl.us mindmap might look like. It has an attractive colourful look. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0ddFMKEZMuGfXoIk63ccboBI_z03m586doOLWWROnoAqcgVEP01b8nOGx9-ZAtSNU8c47-VOyRnMSxwLZdCnrEr-1O1pTBWcjgJSM_7AkPFW1RFzt8jQpBcGEVnZaGnTEaZ48CB8eWSkd/s1600/bubbl.us.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="109" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0ddFMKEZMuGfXoIk63ccboBI_z03m586doOLWWROnoAqcgVEP01b8nOGx9-ZAtSNU8c47-VOyRnMSxwLZdCnrEr-1O1pTBWcjgJSM_7AkPFW1RFzt8jQpBcGEVnZaGnTEaZ48CB8eWSkd/s320/bubbl.us.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.44444465637207px;">A big plus about using this tool with younger classes is that they don't have to sign up. The mondmaps can also be exported as images such as JPEGS. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.450000762939453px;">Students  start with an idea and flesh it out by inserting ideas into bubbles. The bubbles can then be connected and color coded giving a visual representation of the connections between ideas.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.450000762939453px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.450000762939453px;">This YouTube video seems to explain how to use bubbl.us quite well I think. </span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.450000762939453px;"><br /></span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6TP62aNlVu0?rel=0" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">How to share a bubbl.us mindmap</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">You can visit bubbl.us and without even signing up start creating lovely mind maps— but if you want to enable saving, sharing, and other cross-session features you'll need to sign up. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;"></span><br /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">a) If you have your students making a mindmap without signing in, then simply export the mindmap as an image and share it by email. </span></span><br /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">b) If you want to collaborate or share in any other way you'll need to sign in. </span></span><br /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> and then get the contact address of someone else who has a bubbl.us account, and find and use the sharing button. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">c) One can share the mind-map in a blog, wiki or website by getting the embed code (which is found in the drop down arrow under the <i>Sharing</i>button).</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></span> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">d) Bubbl.us also allows multiple users to interact and collaborate with the map itself. This is called mind-map sharing. To do this click on <i> Sheets > Sharing</i> (top right hand corner of the screen.) Choose the mindmap you want to share and add it to a contact’s account. <span style="color: #333333;">Mind-maps may only be shared with bubbl us 'friends': that is, the persons you want to share your mind-map with must also have a bubbl us account.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGw1auklrj8_AsptjwN6tjmem45ces6J3DFk8GHvRHV7g0pUSiEhPSeHXW9jgbnMmUuT0t8WDMmOiocJxR8tSJms1D-9Y5fC5BTIsdqatlnVqWNY2V4niZhxEbVlzUhOCw0P-fejuvt3I/s1600/bubbl.us.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGw1auklrj8_AsptjwN6tjmem45ces6J3DFk8GHvRHV7g0pUSiEhPSeHXW9jgbnMmUuT0t8WDMmOiocJxR8tSJms1D-9Y5fC5BTIsdqatlnVqWNY2V4niZhxEbVlzUhOCw0P-fejuvt3I/s320/bubbl.us.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Collaborators<i> </i><span style="color: #333333;">can have different permissions assigned to them: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><i>*Read Only, </i>which allows viewing but no editing, <br />*<i>Edit</i>, which allows full editing control, including re-naming of your mind-map.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">(It would probably be wise to save a copy of your mindmap somewhere else before you allow collaborators to start working on it!) </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;"></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Please have a go using <i>bubbl.us</i> to create a simple but collaborative mindmap!</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>

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