Thing 16

I wish I had endless amounts of time to explore all that is out on the Web. It is such a short time to explore and discover, it seems, once I put the kids to sleep and really get to check out new sites that can help with my curriculum, my students, and even me and my family as well!

But here I am, happy to have a nice little list to choose from for Thing 16. After looking at my choices and quickly assessing a few to see where my interest might lie, I decided to check explore bubble.us. I thought this might be a sight that could be a great resource for both me and my students.

The first thing I liked was how I could try it out and decide if it was worth signing up for. I began to create a concept map for my Computer Education curriculum. I created a very quick version displaying the different technology concepts learned from 5th grade to 8th grade. It was very user friendly and allowed me to save it in my account and also share it or embed it on a blog or website. I decided to try it out and save it on my blog that I am currently testing to be used with my 7th graders (Kidblog.com- Thanks Terri!) It was easy to embed although appears a little small even though students can zoom in to their area of interest. I think I will have students use this for their notes during research. They can access it from home and school which is nice and they can easily print it or embed it as well. My seventh graders can even add them to their blogs for me to check over from home...an added advantage (one with less paper peddling too).