Hi this is Russell Stannard from teachertrainingvideos.com today we're
going to look at a technology that I've been using for many years it's called Padlet it used to be
called wall we're sure I remember even more than 10 years ago it's a great tool for getting your
students to collaborate together in one place so they can write up their text so they can add links
or they can add videos of pictures and it's all displayed in one nice visual display so it's great
if you're looking to do a collaboration where you want some kind of visual display going for group
work great for brainstorming great for projects so I'm gonna take you through using padlet right
from the start so if you're a someone with only a little knowledge of padlet or you've never used
it before you're gonna find this video really useful super quickly just before we start if you
are an advanced user click on the link above now and you can go to some advanced videos and I'll
also make this link available at the end let's get started so I'm logged into my cam I'm going
to show you some examples of the sorts of things that you can do with havoc just to get an idea and
you'll certainly get more of an idea as I take you through the training if we look at this one
here why should we use ICT with our students I had a group of teachers that I was working with
in Azerbaijan and I wanted to get their opinions on using technology with students so I created a
wall wisher shared the link with them and they clicked on the link and added their ideas all
the ideas come together in one screen you can see here they just take a few seconds to load
and I can see all of the people's opinions and in this particular case I asked them only to write
text but when students add up information onto a board it can be video it can be links it can be
pictures or it can be text in this particular case I just wanted to get together everyone's
ideas now the nice thing about this afterwards is that we can then share this so students can embed
it into their blog or share the link or I can even be printed out so it's just a great way of quickly
collecting ideas together now this one here is a group work project students were working together
and how to produce some information about the day the way that Memorial days around the world
are recognized and you'll see that there's both text and pictures okay so that's another way that
tablets could be organized and one of the nice things is that you can have different layouts
so you can have the budgets across the screen or scrolling down the screen so that's giving you
a couple of examples so we'll show you some more as we work through let's get started and actually
learn how to use padlet okay so all you need to do is to click on the sign up for free button they'll
bring you on to the screen and then you've got a choice of using your Google account or you can
sign up through Microsoft what I'm going to do is simply add in an email address and a password then
once you've done that simply click on the sign up button now with the free account you can have up
to three padlets for free what you'll need to do is obviously when you want to reuse them is
delete them and then you could use three again so click on the basic account and it's gonna bring
you into your padlet screen so let's show you the quickest way to get started you need to make up a
Glen so you're gonna click here as soon as you've got an account ready you've got various layouts
here and these layouts are something that they've introduced over the years at the beginning that
didn't have any different types of layouts at all the one that I quite like working with is the grid
because it keeps all the information organized but also another one is stream where the posts go one
underneath the other I'm gonna click on grid I just click here and the most important thing
first of all to do once the padlet is created is to make sure that you give your padlet a name and
a description so I'm going to quickly do that now so I've added a title I've added a description
now there are some settings here below that we'll come back to in the advanced videos but really at
the moment there's nothing here we need to worry about simply click on the next button and then all
you need to do is to click on start posting now the one thing you need to do then is to
share the link with your students and this is the really important part that I want to talk
about so you need now to decide how your students are going to access and add information onto the
Padlet and it's actually really easy to do you just click on the share button here and it gives
you quite a few options okay and if you come down to this button here this is the important one it
is change privacy okay and what you can do here you can have it as private you can have it as
password-protected you can have it as secret so no one can find it and that's the default setting
or you can set it as public now I'm gonna start by just doing it as public that means you have a
link you share the link with the students and the students can simply access and right you can do it
so that they can do it with a password but I'm gonna show you first the quickest way and this
is often the way I'm working if I'm in the class with a group of students this is the way I work
so I'm gonna click on save now all we need once we've done that is to actually click on this back
button here to actually get that link then and the link is here we just simply come down and click on
copy link to clipboard and we've now got the URL when we need to share it with the students so can
access it now I'm going to show you a couple of tricks to help you to do that because sometimes
it's really difficult you've got a link and if you write the link up on the board or put it on your
projector then the students have got a write loads and loads of text because it's normally
quite complicated then I'll show you a quick way of making it easier to share with your students
so this is the link that the students need to access the board and write up their ideas now
obviously if you go ahead mard or if you've got moodle and you've got a way of sharing that link
then it's very easy if if you write this on the board this is quite a complicated link for people
to write into their browser one thing you can do is go to a website called teeny URL and make that
a little bit short I'm just gonna show you how to do that because that could save you and save your
students a lot of time so I'm gonna go to teeny URL okay just click on teeny URL calm and all I
need to do is to add in the link something gonna paste in that link and then make teeny and it's
gonna make a much shorter version of that ok and we can Inc copy to clipboard why just click in
here now if we come back and just paste that in to compare it to the original you'll see it does
make it much easier for the students to actually write in so that's one way of making it easy for
the students to write into their browser the link so that they can then obviously begin to write so
let's have a look then now actually imagining that the students have got this link so would
copy that one we're actually used a teeny URL on one there and I'm gonna open up a browser and log
in as if I was a student so I'm just gonna click on this browser here so using a different browser
and I'm gonna just paste in that link okay so I'm just gonna click on the address imagine I've got
that link now that teeny URL and I'm gonna click on enter and it's gonna bring me straight in to
the screen to the padlet and now as a student all I need to do is double click and it's gonna
open up a window where I can upload I can add a link I can add pictures etc so I'm just gonna
write in my title which is gonna be my name so that they know who I am who's given this opinion
and I'm gonna just quickly write something so I'll make this just text-based I'm going to
say I love screen capture technology which is obviously the technology that I work with the
most it's the technology I'm using to make this particular video I press on enter that now is
added on to the screen and if I come back now as a shooter back as the teacher I will be able to
see exactly what was written so here I am back as the teacher and I can see that Russell the first
student has written something onto the screen and he immediately appears so I could be projected on
the screen and the students write their ideas it all comes to now it's important to realize that
we don't we're not limited to simply working with text I generally use it with text but you can get
students to add other content is to have a quick look at that so just to make it clear that you can
have other content again that will click anywhere on the screen another window is going to open I'm
going to write the title which is going to be my name so the teacher knows who I am and then as you
can see I've got these other options for example I could click on link and then I could add in a
link to a web page so let's prep just add my own web page so I'm just going to paste in here I've
already copied it the link to my website and click on save and now what we've done is we've added a
link to a website if we jump back now and look at what the teacher sees so we're now back in the
teachers view the teacher can clearly see that this student getting to Russell has added up a
link to a page so you can see you can add lots of different content onto the site now when you make
a Padlet your when you create an account you're limited to three Padlets and a lot of people say
to me well Russell what's the point in using it well no obviously what you can do is once you use
your three is delete one and then you can live or work on and create that one but before you delete
it there's a couple of great things that you can do and these features work really well and
I'm gonna show you one of them we've got this one here what is blended learning I'm gonna click on
the share button and I'm gonna come down here and I am actually gonna save this before I delete it
I'm gonna save it as a PDF file and I'm gonna click on this button and it's so quick and it
does such a good job I'll use the basic settings I'm gonna click on publish PDF and you're gonna
see now it's gonna create turn that into a PDF file there it is and it's on my computer I can
save that now onto my computer and then share it with my students I can just very easily click on
this button here and download that PDF file and that is a great feature and it really means that
once you've done a war wish you can then turn it into a PDF file share it with your students
and then they can put it into their blogs or into their portfolios or you can put it up onto Edmodo
or you can put it onto Moodle etc sometimes you might prefer to make it as an image rather than
as a PDF file and you can also do that again if you click on the share button and come down to
below the share you'll notice that you've got here save as an image and if you click on that
it will just take a few seconds to produce and then you're gonna get the image onto the screen
and we just have a quick look in fact I've got one here already produced there is the image and
you can see that you can also do it that way as well I prefer the PDF file generally but
sometimes an image is but if you particularly if you want to kind of put it into a blog or put it
into a website or something like that but that can be a great way to save all the pad lifts
that you've ever produced then you can delete it afterwards and then obviously make a new Padlet
you're always limited to having three Padlets okay so you're Padlets major students have added up all
their technology you've got it there on the screen that you can project to the students once you've
finished and everyone to put up their ideas to simply click on the padlet button here there's
nothing there's nothing to save one important thing for you is gonna be the ability because
you're limited to having three pallets once you've used a paddle it for a couple of weeks and you've
done the work with the students then obviously what you will need to do is to click and delete
it because if you want to make another Padlet then you're going to want to make sure that you've only
got up to three paddle it's available now luckily because I've been using my account for so long
I've actually got or been given permission to have many more than three pallets but normally you are
limited in a new account to three padlets okay I hope that really helped you above now is the link
to the advanced set of videos for using Padlet so many other things that you can do with Pavlik
include you can make tablets password-protected you can also allow other students to add comments
to Padlet so if you want to use a paddock for a discussion then you can do that so people can add
up contributions and then other people comment on them we haven't looked at uploading video into a
Padlet which we can also do we haven't looked at the many different layouts that are available we
just use the simple grid Padlet so the advanced feature is going to show you many more of the
different ways that you can work with padlet and it can be quite a creative tool I really
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