Good To Know

• Students do not need accounts to create a Padlet [1]
• Information can be added or edited with computers, tablets and phones - multiplatform capable
• Add text, pictures, videos, links, documents (use PDF if students/parents are viewing)
• Padlet walls are infinate in size
• Each sticky note is limited to 150 characters

Setting up your Padlet

1. To Begin - Click the + sign to create a wall
2. Now, Click MODIFY WALL
3. By double clicking anywhere on the wall you can begin adding elements to the wall.  On the right side of the page change the following elements:

• Profile - Add a title, description and portrait
• Wallpaper - Choose your wall background from the preloaded images or upload your own.
• Layout - Choose Freeform or Stream (everything is chronological with Stream)
• Privacy
  • If you want to save your Padlets create an account and under privacy make them hidden link.  This allows only users that have the URL to edit the Padlet.
  • Under privacy be sure to choose either can view, can write or can moderate
  • Padlets can be password protected
  • Post can be moderated
• Notifications - Choose email if you want to be notified if someone writes on your Padlet
• Address - Choose your URL or let Padlet choose one for you
• Share - Export your Padlet as a PDF, image, Excel etc.  or Embed your Padlet onto your website.  Generate a QR code and have students access the Padlet via phone through the QR code.

Curriculum/Classroom Connections

• Managing Tasks - Project Planning, Assignment/Homework Posting/Project Information - Project Based Learning
• Lesson Planning
• Posting Content for Students - Flipped Classroom
• Sharing  - have students share what they've learned and resources
• Question & Answers
• Collaborative Group Work
• Digital Portfolio
• Book Reviews
• Notes
• Brainstorming/Discussions
• Entrance/Exit Ticket
• Back Channel for Video Discussions
• Analyze and Share Observations
• Vocabulary
• Streams - Use Streams for journaling.  Streams keep everything in chronological order
• Website

works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos,

documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device.

These are just some of the ways you can integrate Padlet to maximize instruction:

• Professional Development (I.e., have teachers ask questions prior to a session or completea ticket-to-leave at the conclusion of a session)
• Pose an Open-ended Question to Students/Faculty and Elicit Multiple Responses (The benefit of using padlet when posing a question is that all feedback is immediately gathered. Using padlet also allows all participants to see the feedback.)

• Reflection (I.e., Have students share video reflections or field trip reflections)
• Ticket-to-leave
• Summation tool
  

Ideas for using Padlet with Students

1. Class introductions – Ask students to post a brief bio, quirky fact about themselves, and/or favorite hobby to introduce themselves to the class. 
2. Icebreakers – Post an icebreaker question on a wall and invite students to get to know one another and build community.
3. Inquiry – Before starting a unit of study, drive inquiry and ask students to post questions they have about the topic.
4. Previous knowledge – Ask students to brainstorm everything they know about a topic before they begin studying it.
5. Predictions – Allow students to predict how a book will end, what the outcome of a science lab/experiment will be, or what the impact of an event in history on other countries will be. These are fun to revisit once a book is finished or a lab is completed.
6. Context clues – Post a picture of a person, culturally significant scene or moment from history and ask students to explore and discuss context clues.
7. Finish the story – Post a story line and ask students to continue the story with words and images.
8. Vocabulary development – Post words on the board and ask students to collaboratively add definitions, synonyms and pictures to help all students better understand the vocabulary.
9. Label – Post a picture of a cell, piece of art work, or map and ask students to label the parts with names and information.

These are awesome ideas