Popplet Pops With CCSS!

I love Popplet. It's one of my favorite Web 2.0 tools.  Straightforward and easy to use, it does just what you need it to.  If you are unfamiliar, Popplet is a mind mapping tool accessible via web or app.  The user creates "popples" (what we would call the bubbles on a web) in which to enter information, and popples can be connected by lines.  

Some of its best features are:

• Quick account creation that allows you to save Popplets 
• Collaboration & Sharing so multiple users can edit a Popplet
• Color options for popples 
• Super simple sharing via link, email, or embed code

Some of the ways Popplet augments the creation of a mind map on paper: 

• You can color code popples to enhance organization or visual understanding! 
• You can QUICKLY rearrange popples! 
• You seem to have an unlimited amount of workspace! 
• You an easily delete, move, disconnect, and reconnect the lines that connect Popples!
• You can insert links and images inside popples! 

It's just an awesome tool.  While using it with students, I've had so many great conversations about the ways we can organize information.  Students discuss how they color code their popples and why they place the lines where they do to connect popples.  They actually have to think about what makes the most sense to them visually, and because revision is so simple, they actually DO revise and adjust their thinking. 

In an attempt to encourage my sixth grade teachers to integrate Popplet more, I created this Popplet which provides simple examples for how to use Popplet with the new 6th grade CCSS for Reading!  

Happy Popping!  Can I coin that?