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… 🙂
Hi there, was trying to find an email contact for you. I wanted to discuss why you have been using a wiki to publish a lot of your class work, rather than just a blog.
Have a learnerblogs class blog too, so was just wondering about your reasoning.
cheers
rich
I am going to try this next week using rock photos and having them identify the three types of rocks.
Thank you for your idea. If you have any more details, I’d love to hear them before we take the plunge next week. My kids are NOT as advanced as yours and we are just getting our virtual feet wet. They freaked last week over an electronic worksheet in Word….they just got how to toggle between 2 windows to answer questions and look at content. I’m not complaining, just not sure my kids are where yours are. We’ll get there in time.
Thank you for sharing and being willing to help others.
marsha
Excellent software…….Ive always used comic life which is mac only (http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/), but this could just be what Ive been looking for to use on a PC. Fantastic work……well done kids!