Padlet
Padlet is a collaborative
bulletin board tool that allows teachers and students to share ideas and
resources. It has a wide range of functionality and can allow users to share
comments, links, YouTube videos, files, images,
Some Uses for Padlet
- Class introductions
- A space to share ideas before class discussion
- A space to collect learner work
- Track prior knowledge of an upcoming topic
- Create mind maps
- Organize group work
- Each group can collaborate in different colour notes so the class can review each group’s contributions and comment.
- White board.
- In class, a padlet can be useful as a space to share links and related content and resources. A class might analyse a shared quotation in common, for example. Users can also draw on the board.
- A post-class reflection space.
- A padlet posted in Moodle can allow learners to reflect throughout the week and ask questions about what they’re learning as they may occur outside a class meeting time. Sample questions used to organize this kind of padlet may include: “what questions do you still have?” “what can I offer more information about?” An instructor can set up the padlet to let learners ask questions anonymously and then answer them throughout the week. Without a pro account, a user is limited to three total padlets. To accommodate this limit, an instructor can download that padlet as a pdf at the end of each week, post it in Moodle, and then delete and repost that padlet to collect new questions the following week.