Padlet - An Online Corkboard for Collaboration

Padlet

Padlet is a tool that I have shared with our staff in a few workshops this year.  I originally shared this as a simple formative assessment tool to quickly gauge where your students are at in their understanding of the content.  We had the teachers create a post-it and add a picture that represented who they are:

Created with Padlet

Ideas started flowing, from having them do this one simple post.  Teachers were discussing ideas like:

• students finding images that represent a concept they are learning in class (ie. find real life examples of polygons)
• students posting textual evidence that support an essential question
• students brainstorming ideas about a topic they are learning about
• students sharing their new understanding of a topic and questions they still have about the lesson
• students could list advantages and disadvantages (or pros/cons) in prep for a writing assignment or debate

At our workshop on Thinglink last month, my teammate and I shared another example of how teachers can use Padlet as a place for students to post their projects for everyone to see. This particular Padlet was created by Susan Oxnevad as a place for teachers to share Thinglinks they had created during the Thinglink Teacher Challenge last summer.   

Created with Padlet

As soon as teachers saw this I heard even more new ideas like:

• students posting book reviews
• students posting Infograph/ Thinglink projects
• students posting research links and ideas
• students creating digital portfolios 

Then, I shared Padlet with an English teacher and we decided to have the students create their own Padlets to highlight all of the books they are reading throughout the semester they are in his English class. We plan to start simple.  They will all create a to-read list and then add the book they are currently reading to their page.  As they read more, we will show them how to incorporate book reviews, book trailers, Thinglinks, etc. into their Padlets.  Here is my example:

Created with Padlet

As you can see, there are endless ideas on how you can use Padlet.  The best part?  It is so easy to use!