Bubbl.us - BrainStorming & Mind Mapping Online

Bubbl.us is a mind-mapping product aimed towards  anyone who needs help organizing their thoughts or any untidy information. Powered by Flash, Bubbl.us makes it easy for anyone to quickly start planning and sorting out their ideas through the use of linked text bubbles. Each bubble of information is connected to its preceding parent bubble and color coordinated accordingly for hierarchy sake. Using the mouse wheel or the side tool bar allows for easy zooming in and out of your mind-maps. Also added to the tool bar is workspace positioning and setup styles, however most will find that holding the left mouse button and dragging is a much more convenient way of moving around the work area.

How to Use Bubbl.us on YouTube :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AllXU_3nktU

Read Cube

Read Cube - A Desktop Tool for Organizing Research

Read Cube

is a desktop application, for Windows and Mac, that is designed to help students organize their research. Read Cube provides a place for students to save and annotate scholarly documents. Through Read Cube students can search Google Scholar and Pub Med. Students can also import to Read Cube PDFs that they find elsewhere. The video below offers a short overview of what Read Cube can do.

ReadCube Intro from R3 on Vimeo.

Classroom Use:

When you download Read Cube, it will ask you for your university email. Don't be discouraged by that, I was able to register using my K-12 school email account. But the fact they ask for your university email account is an indication that Read Cube is clearly targeted to a higher ed audience. Still, Read Cube could be useful for some high school students working on long-term research assignments. You might also consider using it yourself for your next continuing education course.

GameUP from BrainPOP

In June 2011, BrainPOP launched GameUp™,

<http://www.brainpop.com/games>

a collection of free online game titles that tie right in to curriculum.

Check out the Game titles below:

Health Games:
Pavlov's Dog
Control of the Cell Cycle
The Diabetic Dog Game
Blood Typing
Microbes
Immune System Defender
Cell Command



Math Games:
Dig It
Battleship Numberline
Food Fight


 
Science Games:
Close-Knit Neighbors
Pavlov's Dog
Alernative Energy Source
Control of the Cell Cycle
Life Preservers
Chronopticon
Fly to Mars
Microbes
Matter Sort
Build a Solar System
Food Fight




Social Studies Games:

Executive Command

Court Quest

Law Craft

Branches of Power

Argument Wars

AND there are

STUDENT-MADE GAMES

OR

You can Make Your Own!

Check It OUT!!!

NOTA - Collaborative Web Platform

Nota is casual collaboration.   

Welcome to Nota!   http://notaland.com/

Nota is a unique, cutting-edge collaborative web platform that allows users to create, share and collaborate on presentations and virtually any other form of online material. Using Nota’s proprietary toolset, users can instantly integrate text, video, maps, clip art, photos from web album or on the local computer, or license-free images from Flickr, and material from an ever-expanding array of sources. Users can then instantly embed their work in Facebook or blogs, and can share and collaborate with friends.

This reminds me of glogster!  Although to me, glogster is easier to use with students. One may wish to give this site a try also!

Quick Guide to using NOTA:   http://notaland.com/howto

• It's easy to use, even for someone with no computer experience.
• Fast load times mean near instant co-creation.
• Embed anywhere including your blog and social networks - and it automatically pushes changes to all of these in real time.
• Also, it is purpose-built to work well with touch interfaces.

Triptico - 23 Interactive Resources

Welcome to the Triptico website.

The Triptico resource application currently contains 23 different interactive resources - all of which are easy to edit, adapt, save and share.   ALL FREE!

You can access them all with one simple download... everything is completely free - and you will receive updates whenever new resources are added! 

A variety of excellent classroom resources are available from Triptico. They work very well on the Interactive Whiteboard.

Note that Triptico resources are now accessed from a desktop application, free to download, so an Internet connection is not required to use the resources.

New resources are being added to the desktop application.

On starting the desktop application one is automatically notified if an update is available with any new resources added to the library.

Find10 was added in December for example.

Try Find 10, perhaps as a starter. This allows you to show 15 statements, 5 of which are incorrect, students have to find the 10 correct statements.

 

Because Triptico is an application that runs in your computer (it runs on Adobe Air, so it’s compatible with both Macs and PCs), it can be used with any make and model of interactive whiteboard.

From there you can easily navigate to any of the different interactive activity makers and you can then customise your own activities to suit your subject and lesson. As you can see, the resources on offer are often game-show inspired and range from (relatively) simple timers, image spinners and student selectors to games, quizzes and text analysis tools. The screenshots below give you an idea of the plethora of classroom-based interactive activities available: