bubble.us

Today we worked with an application known as Bubbl.us. I must be honest I couldn't see it being used much within the area I am teaching within apart from my own personal use. It would be useful as a tool to plan a series of lessons with the overall objectives clear to see.  I have also looked into why others would use brainstorming.

  I also have a program upon my laptop mind maps which is a tool directly linked to my dyslexia. I have not used this program but will be trying to work my way around it in future.
This application can be used for reflective practise within the field of teaching. An idea can be developed from one single word or theme.

I think this application would be an effective tool to use in lesson or scheme of work planning and I am going to develop one upon a  10 week scheme of work I am currently working on.

Once I started playing around with the application though I started to see uses for it within my subject field. In counselling theory classes it can be used to develop a students understanding regarding a subject or concept which has been taught. I did this as an example and used the Snippet Tool to place into my Blog

  This is a useful source for anyone who is a visual and kinaesthetic  learner.  I myself find I prefer to do rather than read, using colour also engages part of my brain which reinforces the learning.
I also found that when I tried to use Bubble.us again I had forgotten a little so found this little tutorial on YouTube which helped.