Link To The Website: https://bubbl.us/
The website that I will be reviewing for this reflection is Bubble.us. This site is a brainstorming tool that helps you to organize your "thought bubbles" by drawing links between your thoughts and refining your thinking. This is a fun way to create "mind maps" that you can use to help organize your own thoughts or help communicate to others about what you are thinking. The site is very easy to log in to and get right to work. The site for the most part is easy to use. I ran in to some confusion when I first started to organize my first mind map when I was trying to figure out how to connect bubbles to each other. Ultimately I was able to figure it out and I was able to organize my thoughts on the SAMR readings and links. I will include that mind map here as an example.
This website would be used for Information Processing in the Learning category. It would be a great tool to use as a "pre writing" exercise before students are asked to write a paper or essay. It would also be a great tool to let students know about when they have a project or they are working on researching something. This would be a nice way to organize their research as they do it and it would help them to come up with a way to present their information to the class. This site could be used by both teachers and students to organize their ideas about any subject and so in that way it is very versatile.
I can definitely see myself using this website in my classroom in the future. I will introduce it to my students as a way that they can organize their thoughts and while I am still in school myself I will use it to help me organize my current research.
I really like your ideas for use of this site in the classroom. I think bubbl.us would be great to enhance learning with students who are in their "pre-writing" stages of the writing process. One other cool thing that I thing you could do with this site is use it as a way to compare ideas among peers. As students create these mind maps they can share them with others and discuss their own views.
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