Week One.

bubbl.us

This week Wendy introduced us to bubbl.us - a site that allows you to create your own mind map online. A mind map being basically, a visual set out of ideas. This site also allows for sharing of your mind map with "friends" on bubbl.us and if desired, to not only view but also edit. Utilising a program such as bubbl.us is a great improvement on the butchers paper and marker version of mind mapping. Bubbl.us allows for mistakes, no need for ugly cross outs and making use of the friends option also allows for anonymous sharing of ideas, eradicating the fear of embarrassment. It's a new and much improved version of the simple mind map. The idea of mind mapping works well in regards to the theory of Cognitivism. Bubbl.us further provides a better outlet for the organisation of information, which aids in linking information in order to transfer it to long term memory.

So that's a brief overview of bubbl.us, it's features and benefits to learning. Feel free to expand and add anything I've missed!

That's me out for now.
- Casey.



My eLearning bubbl.us mind map so far...