Thing #14 Watch me flow

     For today, I played around with flowcharts and mind maps. How exciting! I used Gliffy for the flowcharts and Bubbl.us for the mind maps. I choose these two since they both seem to be clean, simple to use, and plenty of options. At first, I felt that flowcharts and mind maps were the same thing or could be use in the same manner. After playing around with the two sites, I see the different charts in a new light. Personally, I prefer mind maps. It can be a real help when your mind is a mess. It can simplify what you are thinking in a visual way. I see a great deal of use in flowcharts, but more in a scientific fashion not an English one. If I had to use them, I would probably do a flowchart for helping students identify the different forms of poetry like free verse and blank verse.

     I used Bubbl.us for this chart of the great Romantic poets. I could have expanded this by have another bubble with each other's greatest work, but I was just sort of lazy. To be honest, I actually see some potential of me using such tools in the future.