Monday, July 26, 2010

Mind Mapping

We also did mind mapping...

This is a great way for students to make links and develop higher order thinking. This could be used in a Web Quest for a group to research various topics around the Web Quest theme. Students can use different colours to categorise themes within their mind map which all link back to the central issue.




Inspiration 8E!

Today we explored Inspiration 8E!

Inspiration is a great program for students to draw relationships between things. For example students could make up a biodiversity web or insert the planets and put them in the correct order, they could also make a family tree. Students can practise literacy through labeling items. Once I started playing around with it I put in some characters and made up stories about them. Students could put in characters from a book they have been reading and link the characters together, it is possible to insert notes, hyperlinks, sound files and these can be exported to PowerPoint. This activity could also be used in a WebQuest.