What is Padlet?For all practical purposes, Padlet is a digital bulletin board that can be used in the classroom for collaboration, student presentations, posters, and more. You can add videos, text, images and links to your bulletin board to save information for later or for presenting information to the class. It's great for group-work, brainstorming activities, as well as student projects! Here's some more information on the power of padlet, how to get started as well as how to use it in the classroom. Getting Set-Up?10 Ways to use padlet to collaborate and encourage student voice in the classroom.1. Brainstorming Activities: Create a board for students where they need to discuss a topic. Students can share ideas and you can discuss some of them with the whole class. Remember, you can make submissions anonymous and even monitor them before they get posted. Let’s try it out for this post. I created a padlet to share lesson ideas using this app. Why not share them with everyone? How do you use Padlet in your classroom apart from the ones that are already in this list?Just click on this link, and start collaborating. I’m curious about how many ideas we’ll get! Nothing to contribute? Then just take a look! After a while, the board should contain a lot of fun classroom Padlet ideas. 2. A Communication Stream: You can use the Padlet stream layout to create a live communication stream during your lesson. Students could post questions they have during note taking, and at the end you can go back and address them, even better, maybe another student already answered it for them! 3. Peer Feedback: Let students add two ‘tops’ and one ‘tip’ on the Padlet wall of their fellow student who just finished his presentation. Tops are things the student did well and a tip could be something the student should improve the next time. 4. Video Responses: Students can create quick video responses to a prompt or create "visual vocabulary" videos for a class vocabulary list. Or use the video option as a brain break and let kids create a quick video about silly question to let them have a little fun. Make sure to have rules in place and to monitor the videos. Sometimes kids have a little "too" much fun. 5. Note taking: While listening to the teacher, students can work together and add notes to a Padlet wall to create a wall with resources they can use later on or students can create a Padlet of extra resources from online that they've found for additional practice. 6. Research Walls: Students can create a wall to post on-line research to. This could be for a group or individual project. One idea is use it for current events. You could let a student add an article on the Padlet board for the next day. Every day a different student has to add another article. A fun way to go through the current events of the week. 7. Literary Analysis: Have students create a Padlet and add examples from the book based on different literary techniques. For example, if you're working on character development have your students cite quotes from the book that describe the character one day, and then the next day you can have students find an image of a famous person who could play the role of a specific character in a movie and justify why based on their citations. 8. Tapping into Prior Knowledge: Try to figure out what students already know about the topic you’re about to teach. What prior knowledge do your students have about that particular topic and what don’t they know? Students just post their knowledge on Padlet, so you can see how to build your lesson or where your next lesson should go. 9. Unit Objective Checklist: Students can demonstrate their understanding of unit objectives by adding a demonstration of understanding to their Padlet for each objective. They can upload assignments or assessments you've given them in class, use the video feature to demonstrate understanding orally, or use the text feature to demonstrate in writing. 10. Make an infographic, mindmap or poster: Padlet is also a great presentation tool, so students individually or in groups can create and share their visual understanding of content. Being able to add, videos, images, and text allows students to show their creative side and share it with their peers. Comments are closed.
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