Everyone brings something unique to every table. Our experiences shape who we are. I always bring up the chapter in the book “Girl, Wash Your Face”, because I feel like it depicts personal experience in a way that can only be used as an analogy. Rachel Hollis, the author, uses the example of a burning house. To a firefighter, this is their job, maybe even their life’s mission, to the owner, it’s their memories disappearing, and to an arsonist, it’s exciting and thrilling. The same goes for student’s identities in the classroom. Each person brings a sense of unique experiences that shape their thoughts and experience. Same will apply to their writing instruction and how we are involved in their teaching and experiences.

I feel as if this was a very different way of using this platform than I would have utilized it. I feel like using padlet in my classroom would be more for sharing our ideas as a whole on something. I don’t feel like there is much room for interaction. However, for this particular assignment I could see some benefits. I would have had everyone respond on one padlet and then provide responses from there. However, I did notice there were multiple other options in this platform that would have been more useful.