Padlet allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device. Think of it like a multimedia friendly, free-form, real-time wiki.
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Key Features
- Customize the wall title and description.
- Customize the background (wallpaper).
- Choose how posts appear on the wall.
- Option 1 | Freeform: posts can be put anywhere and can be re-sized freely.
- Option 2 | Stream: posts are placed one below the other.
- Privacy Features
- Visibility: allows you to customize how public you want the wall to be (i.e., completely private, password protected, hidden link (hidden from Google and public areas of Wallwisher), and/or totally public). This is a great enhancement to the tool, particularly for educators!
- Moderate posts: requires you to approve posts before they show up not he wall for other readers. Again, this is a great enhancement to the tool as it allows educators to moderate student comments.
- Before using this tool with students, it is essential to outline expectations for acceptable posts and provide specific examples of unacceptable posts.
- Share the consequences for unacceptable posts.
- Set specific rules on how students name themselves when adding a post. If students aren't comfortable providing their real first name, have them create “pen names.” Create a list of these names so you can monitor student progress.
Good To Know
- Students do not need accounts to create a Padlet
- Information can be added or edited with computers, tablets and phones - multi-platform capable
- Add text, pictures, videos, links, documents (use PDF if students/parents are viewing)
- Padlet walls are infinite in size
- Each sticky note is limited to 150 characters
Setting up your Padlet
- To Begin - Click the + sign to create a wall
- Now, Click MODIFY WALL
- By double clicking anywhere on the wall you can begin adding elements to the wall. On the right side of the page change the following elements:
- Profile - Add a title, description and portrait
- Wallpaper - Choose your wall background from the preloaded images or upload your own.
- Layout - Choose Freeform or Stream (everything is chronological with Stream)
- Privacy
- If you want to save your Padlets create an account and under privacy make them hidden link. This allows only users that have the URL to edit the Padlet.
- Under privacy be sure to choose either can view, can write or can moderate
- Padlets can be password protected
- Post can be moderated
- Notifications - Choose email if you want to be notified if someone writes on your Padlet
- Address - Choose your URL or let Padlet choose one for you
- Share - Export your Padlet as a PDF, image, Excel etc. or Embed your Padlet onto your website. Generate a QR code and have students access the Padlet via phone through the QR code.
Curriculum/Classroom Connections
- Managing Tasks - Project Planning, Assignment/Homework Posting/Project Information - Project Based Learning
- Lesson Planning
- Posting Content for Students - Flipped Classroom
- Sharing - have students share what they've learned and resources
- Question & Answers
- Collaborative Group Work
- Digital Portfolio
- Book Reviews
- Notes
- Brainstorming/Discussions
- Entrance/Exit Ticket
- Back Channel for Video Discussions
- Analyze and Share Observations
- Vocabulary
- Streams - Use Streams for journals. Streams keep everything in chronological order
- Website