Useful Information

Pros

• Free version allows for 5 popplets
• User friendly app allows user to focus on content rather than presentation.
• Students can easily create a presentation with color, text, image, and video
• Students can collaborate or edit with an email invitation
• Parents need to know that Popplet is a mind-mapping tool that can be especially helpful for kids who have problems with organization and visual memory problems

Cons:

• Drawings, pictures, and videos can’t be edited or moved
• There is no spell check or grammar check
• Only available on Apple products
• The terms of service prohibit kids younger than 13 from creating accounts, but the developer's policy does allow for parent/guardian or teacher-created accounts to be overseen by an adult and used by kids.

Educator Reviews

Kim B, classroom teacher, W Herbert Chapman Elementary, Spartanburg, South Caroline

• I find this to be one of the most useful free apps I have found. We have not upgraded ours to the paid version. Popplet Lite (the free version) allows you to type, draw, and import pictures into the popples. It also allows you to save your popple as a jpeg straight into the Camera Roll on iPad. That means students can easily turn in popplets they created using Edmodo. Popplet has been extremely valuable to all of the classrooms I have introduced it to at my school.

Tracy B, classroom teacher, East Syracus Minoa High School, Syracuse, New York

• The possible applications of this tool are endless. It is very user-friendly, and the collaborative capability adds a fabulous dimension to brainstorming and mind-mapping.

Fay C, Instructional Technology Resource Teacher, Hanover county Public Schools, Ashland, Virginia

• Although Popplet is not a tool that helps teach content, it is a fabulous tool to help students use their creativity to visually share their learning and create multi-media organizers. Popplet can be used cross-curricular, which I believe is always a bonus to have a versatile web-based tool in one’s toolbox!