I've never heard of Bubbl.us or Glogster so I'm keen to learn a few more Web 2.0 tricks.
I tried to watch the YouTube video about Bubbl.us but that guy was just too painful to listen too. Creating a 'how-to' video on YouTube? Somebody needs a hobby.
Wow. Even though Bubbl.us has a terrible name. It's an impressive program. It's incredibly easy to use and the quality of the work produced is very high. Here's a quick mind map I put together in less than five minutes:
Looks pretty professional doesn't it?
Love the feature that you can add friends and collaborate together on mind maps. I must have really liked Bubbl.us as two days after I logged on, I found myself creating a flow chart (below) for my Y10 Maths class. The boys love a good flow chart and creating them in Bubbl.us is much easier than any other software I've used before.
As for Glogster, I had no idea what to expect. The definition provided to us in our Web 2.0 course outline didn't really clear things up much either:
"A ‘glog’ is an online poster or web page. Users can combine text, pictures, graphics, video, and audio to create an interactive online poster that you can embed it into a wiki, blog, or school /class web site."
After using the site I left unimpressed. It seemed like a program a 12 year old might enjoy using playing around with for fun but I don't know how much use it would be for me in my classroom.
It's a very pretty application but there doesn't appear to be a lot of 'meat' behind it. Some of the sample glogs we were provided with were quite beautiful, but the extra time neeeded to create a glog post doesn't seem worth the few extra bells and whistles. Well here's the quick Glog post I created in Glogster:
Jay,
ReplyDeleteI agree that bubble.us is a great program makes concept maps seem a little more exciting! I have used other programs to make flowcharts and concept maps but bubble.us is the most userfriendly by far!
Well done on finishing and conquering the world of web 2.0!
Hello friend :)
ReplyDeleteI agree with your comments about Bubbl.us and how it can help enhance students learning. You and I both know that drawing up concept maps and mind maps can be time consuming, especially when there is a lot of information. Using this tool would make the information a lot more clear and easy to read.
I wouldn't use Glogster within my classroom..Maybe if I had a younger group of students it could work but with my boys, they would just find it boring and useless.
Nice work on finishing.
Hey Jay,
ReplyDeleteI am also equally impressed by Bubbl.us, but was a bit perplexed by Glogster's potential application or non-application to the mathematics classroom. I went exploring through some of the mathematics teacher's blogs to see what they had come up with.
I am really impressed with your trigonometric curves glog, but I would take your point about the end product not being necessarily worth the extra time taken. I was thinking perhaps it could be useful if a teacher wanted to create posters for the room, or to get students to create posters for the room, to display formulas or concepts, but perhaps this is not utilising the tool to its full potential.