The interface is as clean and simple as it gets. Once you start your new popplet, simply double click anywhere on the popplet space to create a "popple," a rectangular text box that can be formatted for assorted colors, sizes, text sizes, etc. The popples can also hold uploaded or copied images or even your own hilariously bad free-hand mouse drawings. The popples can then be arranged wherever you desire on the popplet and connected using lines to show relationships between popples or flow or anything else. The popplets can then be shared via URL so that students or other teachers can see them. Really cool.How does it work in the classroom?
Popplet has numerous practical uses in the classroom. It can serve as a great way to keep track of ideas in a class discussion or maybe even be used as an organized "parking lot" for questions that will be revisited later in a project. Personally, I like using Popplet as a storage space for terms that we have been using during a project and showing how those terms are related and grouped. After I've amassed and organized all the terms, I'll link the popplet to the class webpage, and the students have an instant and effective graphic organizer to use as a study tool.
I think Popplet would be a fantastic tool, particularly for math, since it allows you to organize formulas and terms under categorical umbrellas such as "Triangles" or "Solving Quadratics." For many of the same reasons, it would also provide an opportunity to organize terms throughout a unit on binomial nomenclature or make a quick timeline of events from the Civil War. I suppose you could even use it in a marching band class to organize cheers by offense or defense or highlight certain parts of musical pieces. The uses for Popplet are almost limitless.
Click here to see a popplet that I created as a review for my Business Technology Applications class.
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