Today we had a planned session in using Bubblr. It was GREAT !! And I would recommend the use of this little site with a whole class to any teachers out there. It was simple and worked a treat… (Take a look at my previous post explaining what Bubblr is)
If you will permit me I will explain what all the fuss is about.

We have been looking at Roald Dahl’s Matilda this week and I thought a simple activity for Bubblr would be to choose some pictures and let the children add them to the Bubblr strip and then simply add text, speech and thought bubbles. Nothing complex or anything to do with order – just to play with the interface and get used to it.
But the beauty is in the simple way the images are accessed by the children. All I did was upload them to our class Flickr account. The children search in Bubblr for our user name “priestsic6″ and there we have it – all of the images in our account with the most recently uploaded heading up the scrollable list for the children to work with.

The Bubblr strips were published and then if you click on the “BLOG THIS” button you can copy the code for embedding it. I asked the children to go to our class wikispace and embed the Bubblr strips into our literacy page. With their prior knowledge from doing the Quikmaps lesson they coped really easily with it. I was suitably impressed with how adaptable the children are. As I was walking around the suite there was that great buzz when everyone is on task and they are really enjoying such a simple but great activity.

Please let me know if anyone wants any more details about the activity or how to set it up yourself.
This one’s a keeper… :)