Padlet backgrounds5/7/2023 ![]() You can download your walls in a variety of formats after using them with students, meaning that you could recycle the walls for different cohorts. With a free Padlet account, you can create up to 3 walls. ![]() Having said that, we really like Padlet as a free tool – its features and reliability mean it’s a good addition to your toolbox… if used wisely. That doesn’t mean you can’t use them but you do so at your own risk if it breaks, and there are some other important considerations (described later in this post). There is a whole range of other edtech products out there, but we cannot fund or support them all. Supported technologies include Blackboard, Panopto, O365 and Vevox. This makes it one of those ‘unsupported’ technologies you will hear us talk about. We don’t have an institution license for Padlet. ![]() Do we have a University-wide license for it? Explore Padlet’s gallery for ideas and inspiration. Within the team, we also use it for collecting feedback and short directed tasks in workshop settings. We use Padlet to engage with a global classroom of very varied learners, sometimes as an icebreaker task ( What does the ocean mean to you? Share an image with us) and sometimes for more specific collaborative learning activities ( Make an audio recording of you playing an instrument and upload it). In the Digital Learning Team, we’ve been using Padlet in our FutureLearn courses for the last 6 years (we were one of the first FL Partners to use this tool in our courses). You can customise the layout of your Padlet wall. It is also possible to set privacy levels for boards and assign moderators if you think it’s necessary. You can choose whether to moderate posts before they are published, allow participants to post anonymously, and there’s a profanity filter (if required). There are customisable settings which mean participants can upvote, like, or even give a score for other posts. As well as students being able to upload a range of media (text, video, audio etc) they can also comment on other posts. The interface is straightforward, with customisable layouts, and backgrounds, plus some nice features to increase student engagement. Padlet is a virtual pinboard or online post-it board with a unique URL. Padlet is another of these tools with which you can utilise these theories and Laurillard’s (2002) Conversational Framework, whereby student concepts and actions are mediated through dialogue with the teacher. The underlying pedagogy moves away from more transmissive modes of delivery (e.g recorded lectures) and is aligned with theories of social constructivism, and collaborative learning. The following video provides step-by-step instructions for setting up Padlet boards for a reading response activity.Blogs and Wikis in Blackboard and Microsoft ClassNotebooks provide a way to engage students through dialogue and creation of content. Different backgrounds make it easier to quickly distinguish which book is being discussed. ![]() This is helpful when multiple books are being discussed at once. Teachers can customize the backgrounds of the Padlet boards.This is helpful for reluctant or emergent writers. There is an option for students to add pictures, so they can take a picture of their evidence from the text.They can also like each other’s comments – which adds a whole new element of excitement for them! Students can respond to other students ideas in the comments.Displaying it on your Smartboard can also help with this. As a result, they tend to take the activity more seriously. Knowing that other students can see what they’re contributing helps to improve student accountability.Students immediately see new ideas on their device as other students contribute.Students can easily collaborate with other students who are reading the same book.Additional Benefits of Using Padlet for Reading Response They could easily refer back to it when needed. It was a visual way for students to remember what they knew about the characters. ![]() As students found additional information about each character or met a new character, they could add it to the Padlet. I created a Padlet that had columns for each of the main characters and a column for new characters. When reading chapter books, students can struggle to keep track of all of the characters. ![]()
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