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Dyan Branstetter | August 2016
A few weeks ago, I shared a list of my current "top five" of free or low-cost technology tools that I use in my classroom for Arts-Integration or STEAM lessons. Throughout the fall, I will focus on ideas for using each classroom tool like Padlet in the classroom. Find the original list here.
If you haven't heard of in the classroom and you're looking to add more technology to your classroom, this is a great way to start. First of all, it allows students (or teachers) to collaborate. Think of it as a large bulletin board. Anyone with the link can place a post-it on the bulletin board. The post-it note can include a note, a picture, a video, or a website. I've used Padlet for teacher book studies and anything that I want students to collaborate on.

Secondly, it is SIMPLE to create and does not require many devices. It is so simple, in fact, that you can create one on the fly in response to a lesson that changes direction mid-class. Not even close to a 1:1 classroom? Leave a the Padlet open on a classroom computer and allow students to type their answer during independent work time, station time, or during transitions.

1. Getting to know your "audience"

Create a Padlet in the classroom for students (or faculty) to get to know one another. This could also be useful at a back-to-school night. Ask students to post a note with their name and something they did over the summer or something they are looking forward to learning during the upcoming school year. At a back to school night or open house, it could be part of a scavenger hunt. Leave the Padlet projected for all to see, and have families post their name and a picture of themselves.

2. Formative Assessment

After teaching a lesson, post a "ticket out the door" question to find what students learned that day. You can post a big question, such as your lesson's essential question, or a specific question to determine who has met an exact objective. This is a great time to figure out what students' perceive to be the important points about their learning, and it also highlights the misconceptions. (I don't typically project these Padlets because sometimes students are sensitive of their work when it is new learning. It is best to generate a culture in the classroom that celebrates mistakes so that students see them as the very best way to learn and grow.)

3. Collaborative Research

Padlet can be a great classroom tool for small groups of students participating in collaborative research. To help organize the board, students can post driving questions about their topic, and as they find answers (or more questions) during the research process, they can post them under each driving question. Students can also post links, video clips, and images, making it more effective than traditional notecards.

4. Book Studies and Discussion Points

Padlet is an incredibly useful discussion board for discussion. Whether it is a student-run literature circle or reciprocal teaching groups, or a staff development book study, Padlet is an effective classroom tool. The leader posts a question about the chapter, and participants respond to that question. Students can have literature discussions even when the classroom needs to be quiet, or in the evening from their own homes. Teachers can prepare for professional development book studies by posting thoughts from a chapter prior to meeting in person, which helps the leader of the book study better prepare for the focus of the next session.

5. Student Sharing

Provide students with an opportunity to share their work without taking the instructional time to share one at a time in front of the room. (Presenting has definite value, but realistically there just isn't enough time to do this for everything students create.) Allow students to take a picture of what they are working on and post it to a Padlet you've set up for them. Have other class members view the posted items, and respond below it by sharing a "Praise" and a "Polish"- one thing they love, and one thing they would have done differently. A reminder to train students about writing effective comments, both positive and constructive, and to teach students how to use those comments once they are received. You could organize this by setting up a Padlet for each project/piece students create, or you could set up a Padlet for each student to post their creations throughout the year.
Have you used Padlet in the classroom? How have you used it effectively?

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5 Ideas For Using Padlet in the Classroom

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Dyan Branstetter | August 2016 A few weeks ago, I shared a list of my current "top five" of free or low-cost technology tools that I use in my classroom for Arts-Integration or STEAM lessons. Throughout the fall, I will focus on ideas for using each classroom tool like Padlet in the classroom.

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32 Interesting Ways to Use Padlet in the Classroom  (Recuperado)

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Wallwisher in the Foreign Language Classroom

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Wallwisher in the Foreign Language Classroom

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All FL/SL

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Many of my lessons start out with a brainstorming session. Why? Because this accurately engages students with the topic that will be introduced. For instance, it is much easier to explain feminine/masculine endings after students have brainstormed and have defined similarities and differences, have divided words in groups according to their ending, and drawn preliminary conclusions.

So, why not use a super simple online tool to brainstorm instead of the usual pen and paper or the board?

Wallwisher is a super easy to use notice board that is excellent as an online brainstorming tool. It allows you to create notes on a virtual wall simply by double clicking. It also allows video and image posting. Walls are saved in your free account and can be shared, embedded and viewed online and on mobile devices.

Below is a wall that I recently used with my Spanish beginner class. Each group had their wall where they needed to brainstorm about what to take to a picnic on an specific assigned situation (weather, place, etc).

How I use Wallwisher in my Spanish classrooms

1. Brainstorm: as I mentioned above, I use brainstorming activities in my classroom often. I use Wallwisher a lot for this, as it is very easy to use and fun to display. It is great for archiving brainstorm sessions and pulling them up later when needed. I also like to link or embed them in the class blogs as resources. Students love this tool and it is easy for them to use. You can assign homework when they are well acquainted with it.

2. Evaluate your lessons: fun, interactive and quick way to assess your lessons (especially new ones). Ask students how they felt? What were some lessons learned? This will give you specific ideas of what students got out of the lesson, or if you need to review anything again or work on more practice.

3. Question - answer sessions: to practice listening and writing, ask questions orally and students write down the answers.

4. First week presentations: this can be done in English and then done in Spanish after students have learned how to talk about themselves (me llamo, vivo, edad,...)

5. Practice vocab: there are many possibilities here. You can write the word in English and they can write it in Spanish. Write synonyms/antonyms of words. Name a topic or unit and students should write all verbs/nouns/adjectives related to it. Say a word and they should look for the image and post it on the wall. Write sentences using specific vocab. Create two, three or four walls, divide the class into groups and have them compete against each other to see which group comes up with the most number of words or sentences.

6. Opinions: after reading, listening or viewing material students can write what it was about and include supporting evidence (se trata de....porque...)

7. Describe a picture: choose a picture or image related to the unit and describe or give it a name and explain why.

8. Collaborative homework: assign research homework where students post their findings (links, images, videos) on the wall. Great for culture research. For example, assign a Spanish speaking country on the wall they should write the continent, the capital, famous people...

9. Daily sentences: display a wall at the beginning of your classes and ask a student to write any phrase in Spanish. Ask a different student each time.

10. Class resources: because all videos, links, images, text that you post an the wall can be viewed directly on the wall, it is a great way to compile resources for safe student viewing and research. Create your "Resource Walls" and have them ready to use with students.

Other Wallwisher uses in the foreign language classroom

1. Sentence structure and vocab: write a very short sentence and ask students to expand it. Like this: expanding sentences

2. Display student work: any other work you do with technology in your foreign language class could be displayed on the wall like this: Wallwisher display

3. Book, film, video, song reviews.

4. Share tips and tricks to remember vocab, grammar rules, conjugations, etc.

5. Sharing resources: this could be amongst students or teachers.

How to use Wallwisher tutorial

Alternatively you can watch the videos here: Wallwisher tutorial part 1 & Wallwisher tutorial part 2

Wallwisher tips, tricks and things to keep in mind

1. Editing: to change a wall's name, description or privacy settings. Click on "Me" at the top - right corner. If you are on the wall already then click on "Edit Wall". If you need to find the wall first, click on "My Home" and select the wall you want to edit.

2. Viewing all your walls: click o "Me" at the top - right corner and then on "My Home"

3. Walls can't be created on ipads: since it is not possible to double click on iPads, Wallwishers can't be created on iPads.

4. To share: Click on "Do more" at the top - right. Then embed, send link or share on social media.

5. Privacy Settings: I always lock walls as soon we are done working with them in class to avoid posts that you may not want on your wall.

Further reading

Great collection stated by Tom Barrett: 32 Interesting ways to use Wallwisher in the classroom

A Wallwisher about Wallwisher: Ways to use Wallwisher in the classroom

Another excellent collection of ideas: Wallwisher - 105 classroom ideas

Have you used Wallwisher as a tool in your foreign language classroom? I would love to hear about it...

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Wallwisher Brainstorm Tool in the Foreign Language Classroom - Spanish4Teachers.org

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Many of my lessons start out with a brainstorming session. Why? Because this accurately engages students with the topic that will be introduced. For instance, it is much easier to explain feminine/masculine endings after students have brainstormed and have defined similarities and differences, have divided words in groups according to their ending, and drawn preliminary conclusions.

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20 useful ways: Choose 3 that you like most and comment below please

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20 useful ways: Choose 3 that you like most and comment below please

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Ed Tech

There's a good chance you've done the "write on a sticky note and put it on the wall" activity - or have seen it happen before.
Padlet lets those sticky notes have images, links and videos AND be available with practically any Internet-ready device.
It used to be blocked by my school's Internet filter. This school year, the powers that be have allowed it through on student devices, opening up lots of possibilities in class!

Padlet is a great place for gathering ideas, sharing them and modifying them later. It's like a living, breathing webpage. Users can add links, YouTube videos, files and images to Padlet notes. They can move and arrange them. A link to a Padlet can be shared and Padlets can be embedded into webpages.

Here are 20 ways to use Padlet in class:

15. Collect videos to share in class

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Padlet is a web app that lets users post notes on a digital wall. The uses for this site in the classroom are virtually endless!There's a good chance

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