The two mind mapping tools that I
investigated were Glinkr and Bubbl.us. I
chose these two tools because they are free resources on the web. Mind mapping tools allow a teacher to create
Venn diagrams and other similar presentations materials.
I found Glinkr to be very confusing
and difficult to use. I was not
user-friendly from my experience. I
found it easy to add boxes and text to create my diagrams, but it was difficult
to connect them using the arrows that they provide. Overall, I did not enjoy my experience with
Glinkr.
On the contrary to Glinkr, I found
Bubbl.us to be easy to use and a lot of fun to work with. Instead of text boxes, bubbles are used to
insert text. I could choose any color
and size that I wanted the bubbles to be, and it was very easy to insert text
and connect the various together. I
developed a sample Venn diagram using Bubbl.us that shows conjugation of
regular –ar, -er, and –ir verbs in the present tense in Spanish. Take a look at what I created below:
I had very similar experiences Pia. I enjoyed using bubbl.us and found it easy to use while Glinkr was much more difficult. Your map looks great!
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