This document provides instructions for using the Popplet app to create visual diagrams and mind maps on an iPad. It explains how to create a new Popplet, add text, drawings, photos and subheadings to popples (bubbles). It also describes how to export a finished Popplet as an image, upload it to Google Drive, and share it. Finally, it proposes different ways Popplet could be used and provides two challenges to create sample Popplets with photos and timelines.

1. Getting Started:
Popplet
Ready, Set, Create!
Alyson Carpenter
Instructional Technology Specialist
Athens City Schools
alyson.carpenter@acs-k12.org

2. Open Popplet!

3. Select Background color:

4. Gear → Make New Popple

5. Looking Around A Popple...
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3 4 5 6
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1. Change Popplet Background
2. Make New Popples
3. Change Popple Color
4. Add Text (text menu will pop up
when selected)
5. Free Draw (Hint:Make
Large,/Shrink)
6. Add images (Camera, Camera Roll,
or ClipBoard)
7. Tap Any Dot to Make New Popple
8. Delete Popple
9. Share Your Popplet / Save to Your
Camera Roll

6. Select a popple color:

7. Adding Text:

8. Let’s Add Popples!

9. Create Subheadings:

10. Insert Drawings:

11. Insert
Photos
from your
camera
roll:
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2

12. Insert
Photo
Using the
Camera:

13. Pinch to
Center
popplet
on your
screen.
Select
Export →
Save JPG

14. Select
ok

15. The
finished
popplet
can now
be found
in your
photos:

16. Open your Google
Drive

17. Click + →
Upload
photos
1
2

18. Select
photos

19. Choose
the
photo
you
want to
add:

20. Click the
in the
upper
right
corner:

21. Find &
open
your
saved
popplet
in
Google
Drive:

22. click on
the
white
info
button in
the top
right
corner:

23. Select
Share:

24. Enter Your
teacher’s
email
address →
Click Can
Edit → Click
the :
1
2
3

25. Your
teacher’s
name
should
now
appear
under
“Who has
access”

26. How might you
use Popplet?
● Create a Presentation
● Create a Timeline
● Divide Words into Syllables w/ Popplet
Boxes
● Practice Adjectives (Put pic in Center &
Describe)
● Word Webs
● Use Pictures to Show A Concept
(Example: How many ways can you
make the #15?)
● Brainstorm
● Create a StoryBoard
● Create a Character Analysis
● Plan a Story / Paragraph (Main Idea &
Details)
Source: http://suprtektalk.blogspot.com/2014/11/awesome-ipad-app-popplet.html

27. Popplet Challenge
#1:
1. Create a new popplet.
2. Insert a picture of an animal you copied from
the web. In Safari tap and hold the picture and
select Copy. (Try this site for photos: http:
//pics4learning.com/)
3. Create popples around the picture and type in
adjectives to describe that animal.
4. Tap export and save the popplet as a JPEG.
Source: http://suprtektalk.blogspot.com/2014/11/awesome-ipad-app-popplet.html

28. Popplet Challenge
#2:
1. Create a new popplet.
2.In the center use the iPad camera to take a
picture of yourself. Add your name.
3.Add popples to the right and enter important
dates and events from your life.
4.Tap export and save the popplet as a JPEG.
Source: http://suprtektalk.blogspot.com/2014/11/awesome-ipad-app-popplet.html

29. Let me know if you
need additional
support!
alyson.carpenter@acs-k12.org
Alyson Carpenter
Instructional Technology Specialist
Athens City Schools