Week 2-Popplet goes the Weasel

There are a lot of interesting tools that we have been introduced already.  The one tool I enjoyed reading about is Popplet.  Though it may come off a little simple compared to some of the other tools, I think it is as important as a visual learning tool in the classroom.  Popplet is an app that allows the teacher and students to brainstorming ideas for a topic.  You can use the app to prepare a visual representation of the topic and brainstorming ideas.  They refer this to as mind mapping.  The students think and learn better visually while using Popplet.  The app in turn will help students take all his or her thoughts and develop a relationship between those thoughts and facts and images.  The Popplet app is not only available on the computer, but also on the IPad.   As a future business teacher I can see where I would use this tool in the classroom.  One example would be I hope to have an entrepreneurship class or section and would have the students come up with a business idea they would like to do.  I would use Popplet for twice for this project.  The first way would be to have the unknown business as the base in the center and then have students put their strengths and interests in the branches.  This will hopefully help the students come up with a business idea.  Then the next stage I would have the students take that business idea as the base in the center and the branches will be ideas the he or she needs to get the business started.  The other project that I think Popplet would be beneficial would be somewhat of a business history project.  I would have the students probably in an intro of business class select significant business figure, event, or movement and that would be the center focus of the Popplet.  Then as the students do research on the subject they chose.  That will be the branches of the Popplet.