Technology Adventures at Hopewell Elementary
Graphic organizers. We teach students how to use them in order to map out our thoughts. Having a visual helps to process and organize thoughts both for the creator and their audience. Students are also strengthening their abilities to prioritize, pull out important facts and points, problem solve, brainstorm, and synthesize information. As educators we have a variety of resources to find all kinds of neat graphic organizers depending on our purpose. We have them in our books in our classroom or we can do a search online and find them from our favorite teaching websites. However…we are usually printing them and making copies for the students. Or, we are showing them an example template and then having our students create their own on paper. Both of those options are fine. However...
...using Popplet Lite on the iPad is a great alternative! It encourage being paperless, you don't have to limit yourself to the constraints of the boxes on pre-made organizers and you are encouraging your students to create the organizers themselves! Why should all graphic organizers look the same for each student? Here are some samples to get you thinking of ways that you would use Popplet.
Remember, the students take a screenshot or save a jpeg to the iPad's Photo Library of their work and they can email their finished work to you.
I remembered towards the end that you can change the colors of the boxes which can help distinguish points even more. Perhaps when making a Problem - Solution chart, one could create the problem boxes as red and the solution boxes as green.
Notes to remember when emailing:
Don't forget that you can move around on the screen on the iPad, but when emailing the JPEG, you should tap "view all" first. If a student has their popples off to the side, and emails the image to you, that is what you will see (see example below). Additionally, If the text size is very small especially when dealing with a lot of text, you might not be able to read it very well.
There are more a few more options on Popplet which you use on a computer (popplet.com) but it requires creating an account with an email address. Not sure how we'd use this in the classroom yet.
The paid version of the Popplet app for the iPad is $4.99 and has more options as well. This app would be worth it to purchase for our school because we can create multiple popplets, conduct real time collaboration with classmates, and more.
Thanks to my teachers for inspiring me with some of these ideas!
Anyone have any other ideas out there?!? Please share!
...using Popplet Lite on the iPad is a great alternative! It encourage being paperless, you don't have to limit yourself to the constraints of the boxes on pre-made organizers and you are encouraging your students to create the organizers themselves! Why should all graphic organizers look the same for each student? Here are some samples to get you thinking of ways that you would use Popplet.
Remember, the students take a screenshot or save a jpeg to the iPad's Photo Library of their work and they can email their finished work to you.
Cluster Diagram:
Free Form Diagram:
Main Idea and Supporting Details:
Facts & Conclusion:
Flow Chart:
Compare & Contrast:
Cause and Effect:
Process or Cycle:
I remembered towards the end that you can change the colors of the boxes which can help distinguish points even more. Perhaps when making a Problem - Solution chart, one could create the problem boxes as red and the solution boxes as green.
Notes to remember when emailing:
Don't forget that you can move around on the screen on the iPad, but when emailing the JPEG, you should tap "view all" first. If a student has their popples off to the side, and emails the image to you, that is what you will see (see example below). Additionally, If the text size is very small especially when dealing with a lot of text, you might not be able to read it very well.
There are more a few more options on Popplet which you use on a computer (popplet.com) but it requires creating an account with an email address. Not sure how we'd use this in the classroom yet.
The paid version of the Popplet app for the iPad is $4.99 and has more options as well. This app would be worth it to purchase for our school because we can create multiple popplets, conduct real time collaboration with classmates, and more.
Thanks to my teachers for inspiring me with some of these ideas!
Anyone have any other ideas out there?!? Please share!
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