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Bubbl.us is an app to brainstorm ideas!

WHAT IS BUBBL

It is an easy-to-use platform and cloud-hosted deployment.
It is an online brainstorming software. You can create colourful mind maps.

It is the first choice of many user who search for basic tools to get mind-mapping tasks done.
It is a cloud-hosted tool that can be used to activate and use through any available web browser.
It is a useful tool for students, teachers, and teams to collaborate and brake down new topics.
User can save their mind maps as HTML or as image files, which makes the access and storage easier for everybody.
You can personalize the bubbles in your mind map to highlight different relationships within the words or emphasize differences and contrasts between information.

PROS

Easy-to -use and intuitive interface.
Free version: you can create up to three mind maps.
You can collaborate with others over the internet.
You can use the tool in your web browser on your computer or mobile phone.
You don't have to download anything!
Colourful and engaging.

CONS

Needs login.
There is no offline application available.
Lacks directional arrows.
Moving the bubbles is very complicated.
Premium version requires payment.

HOW TO USE BUBBL

First, enter www.bubbl.us

Second, select Register and the plan you would like to use

Third, register yourself with an email account

Then, press + to start creating your mind map

Finally, start brainstorming your ideas!

Press on the first bubble and select different fonts and add more bubbles

You can choose how you mind map will look like

There is a variety of colours available to use for the bubbles

You can choose how to center text

Font size can also be chosen

There a tool bar on the right top edge to save, share, print, undo or redo your mind map

This is an example of how your mind map could look like:

Lesson Plan

Students: Teens (16-17 year olds)

Topic: Identify types of relationships

Time: 45'

Students will be presented with some articles about types of relationships, which they will have to read for the following class.

The teacher will start the following class with a discussion on the articles read by the students.

Then, she will ask students to share new words, or words do not know the meaning of. They will all discuss the words together and introduce the different types of relationships they have read about.

After that, the teacher will ask the students to form groups of three/four students. Each group will have to choose from 4-5 types of relationships and brainstorm words that relate to them. Finally, each group will have to access bubbl.us and create a mind map with all the words they have brainstormed for each type of relationship, which they will have to show to the whole class.

Computer will be provided for each group to create the mind maps

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