As part of our continuing iPad App March Madness promotion, I’m featuring the “losers” from our March Madness bracket as they are eliminated.  Loser #2 is Popplet Lite.

Popplet Lite is a free app that can be used for any web-styled graphic organizing you need to do. A single entry on the web is called a “popple” and can quickly be made by double clicking anywhere on the screen. As you can see from the screen shot on the left, popples can contain text, photos, drawings–just about anything you want. You can adjust their size, location, color and connections to other Popples as well. Once the Popplet is done, you can export the creation as a PDF that can be emailed or like I did for this we article, y can take a screenshot that saves to your iPad’s photos as an image. The free version doesn’t allow for unlimited usage, so you’ll have to keep the account cleaned out as you use it more and more. Here is a link that references some Popplet projects done by Wetmore second graders as part of their study of important African Americans earlier this year:  http://www.usd113.org/vnews/display.v/SEC/Wetmore%20Academic%20Center%7CStudent%20News.

Another tech integrationist put together a couple of nice tutorial pages on this app.  You can see his work and learn a little more about using Popplet here: https://sites.google.com/a/franklin.k12.wi.us/ipad-bingo/popplet