Hi this is Russell Stannard from teachertrainingvideos.com Padlet's become very
popular over the last year with uh coving and lots of teaching online I've got a couple of videos
on Padlet that are very popular I've been using Padlet since it was called wall wisher more than
10 years ago and I'm a big fan of the technology I've made a set of videos that take you through
everything how to make Padlets how to set up the security how to get people to comment on them and
rate the different padlets the different styles of padlets that you can use also how you can archive
your padlets if you run out of free ones to use or how you can save them as images this course goes
for everything it also shows you how to combine padlet with zoom or you google me or microsoft
teams and of course it also talks about using padlet in the classroom so this is a complete
training course in padlet from someone who's been using it for more than 10 years really hope
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right let's get started okay we're going to take a look at padlet a padlet is like an electronic
cork board where people can kind of add all their ideas up onto the screen um and I'm going to give
you an example of what a padlet looks like so basically the idea is that you create a padlet
and then people can with a link can access the padlet and add their ideas onto the screen so it's
and they're all kind of arranged on the screen like stickies so if we looked at a quick example
um if I clicked on this one this is really quite an interesting example because it's huge
uh in fact a lot of students didn't get to finish I had quite several hundred people in the session
but people were just putting out what they were gonna do once the lockdown was over because it
was at the period of the lockdown and you can see I just collected everybody's ideas together on the
screen now we're not limited when we add a padlet to just writing on the screen we can also add
video and audio and I will look at that at the end but the basic idea is that it's electronic
cork board but there are actually quite a variety of different cork boards so before we actually
look at the process of creating one because it's very easy let's just take a quick look at some
examples
way to get an idea of what Padlet can do is to have a quick look at the gallery and it's worth
spending a bit of time here because you really see some nice examples um i can show you this one
here this is just a poll where people have put up different answers they've included pictures
and then people have voted on uh the best one what would be the theme of a senior prom to be
so they would be choosing a theme come up with different ideas and then people voted on it okay
so that's another thing that you'll notice that people can respond to content that's been added
to a padlet we can also do timelines with padlets and here what we've got is the songs of the year
since 2010 from the grammys and you can see that each year a different song has been added
this could be writing this could be video well it is video in this case actually or this could
be for example images so you can or even audio files so you can do timelines obviously with dates
uh the whole idea of timeline is is something that's obviously over a period of time whether
it be something from history or in this case obviously the song so timeline can work really
really well and then obviously a lot of work can be built around the timeline afterwards this is
a nice one it's complete ideas are lots of ideas lots of suggestions from different people about
what you need to do if you're preparing for a half marathon and people have put up video they've put
up pictures and they've obviously written text in so don't forget all of these are where people
have made their individual contributions remember that we can just create a padlet
share it with our students and then our students can come on and add their content into the Padlet
we've been working in groups and writing about memorial days around the world so again
nice kind of idea and again something that could easily be done collaboratively
be worth looking at um the gallery to get some ideas let's create a padlet and to create a
padlet we need to click on make a padlet once we click there you'll notice that there's all
different layouts okay and again this can really add a nice element there's a back channel so each
uh one comes underneath okay you've got like a grid which is the one that i often use because
it lays them out in a kind of grid form you've got a kind of random one here a canvas idea you've got
the timeline you've got a very interesting one here as well which is um where you've got a map
and um you can kind of mark different places on the map this really works well this one's
a shelf so this can be nice if you put an idea at the top and then you put under contributions
connected to that idea underneath then another idea here contributions underneath another idea
contributions underneath that can work really well so all these are worth learning because they can
all be used for different things I'm just going to do the simplest one which probably one of the most
simplest grid they all work exactly the same way i'm just going to click on here and what i'm going
to do to begin with is just do a super simple question and that question is going to be how
are you finding teaching online so let's imagine I want to ask this question to
a group of teachers which is something I've done very often I click on next
and I'm ready and I can just start posting and all I need to do now is share that link
with my students now obviously that could be via email that could be added into Edmodo or
into Moodle or into blackboard or of course I could just directly share that link into Zoom
so I'm going to demonstrate that so I'll just copy that okay so copy and then I
would come back to my zoom now I've minimized my zoom I'm just going to maximize it again
okay so just to explain what I normally do if I'm in a session in zoom I will minimize the
zoom do the Padlet and then come back to the zoom by maximizing and then I simply open up the chat
window and paste the link in and then press the button so that now all the students can just click
on that link and go to the Padlet and engage with me so that's how I use it if I'm using it in
an online class obviously sometimes I'm just asking the students to do the Padlet in the
evening time for homework so I might put it into Edmodo or into Moodle or into blackboard
or of course you could even share it via an email simply you need to get that link to the students
need to do is double click on the screen and especially if they're writing what I normally get
them to do is write their name at the top and then they can add their comments by just clicking and
writing underneath it's as simple as that okay you do need to click to you know to kind of focus on
that area and then you can start writing on the screen now you're not limited to only adding up
text you could you can in theory add all sorts of things including if I wanted to and I'm just
going to demonstrate it uploading a picture uh that you may have uh in your Padlets for example
so if I wanted to put I've got a picture here of me I could I could add that okay I can turn that
off I think I can get rid of that yes but then you've got other options as well you can link
to some content if you want to recommend a website or something so for example if I quickly jumped
over to my website and I was to link copy and then come back and add that in so it would also work
and and and you get again a little image when you do that and another really nice thing you can do
with that link is add a YouTube video now when you add a YouTube video the best thing to do is to go
to the video click on share and copy the link okay then again I'm going to jump back now to padlet
click here and paste in that link and then click on save okay and the same thing happens when you
add a video up onto padlet you'll see in a minute it will visualize onto the screen as well and also
provide the button now in fact padlet can do even more and we're going to look at that in a minute
the next thing I'm going to point out to you I wouldn't recommend doing this
in an online session because the students have already got their microphones connected
to zoom in an online session but especially for homework it is also possible and again I'm
going to double click on the screen write my name okay but this time I'm going to click
down here and I'm going to choose the option of voice and that again I can just check
now that I've got the correct microphone set so I'm going to actually change it because
I'm obviously using one microphone to do this recording but what I can do is just change it
to my webcam okay so I'm using a different microphone and I'm gonna click on the button here
testing testing one two three testing testing one two three testing one two three and click on the
pause button and i can then discard and restart or play back and save which is what i'm going to do
so let's see if that's worked testing testing one two three testing testing absolutely perfectly I'm
gonna put a title in Russell's ideas and then I'm gonna click on save and now that is gonna be added
on to the padlet so padlets are really really powerful in this way because we can put all sorts
of things onto a padlet including video links text pictures and of course audio now if we looked at
a padlet again by double clicking again I'm just going to put my name in one more time
and then I'm going to click again here and then look at these options okay and there are several
other ones including taking an immediate snapshot of yourself if you're sitting in front of a webcam
and look at all these options here now in all honesty the one I've ever used really is is is
voice okay I've not really played around with any of these other ones there's a draw one I
do believe and I think that you can sort of draw onto the screen okay and then once you've drawn
onto the screen again you can save that and that can become a contribution so it's worth looking
at these but the most interesting one for me certainly is the option to do a speaking activity
one of the most powerful things about padlet is that we can get our students to respond
to the content that other people have put up so we can have like a first activity where the
students add content onto the screen and then the second activity where they can respond and in this
example we can see that students have responded by leaving comments on what they think of the
different ideas but there are other ways of doing this and let me just show you a couple of examples
so for example in this one people have been grading the pictures
that other people have put up onto the screen i think this was after a visit to china so you
can see loads of different activities that we can do but then we can get the students to kind
of engage with the content that they've created and this is really important and it's something
i talk about a lot in the training sessions that i run responding to student generated
content don't just leave it and it's one of the basic reasons why students begin to lose interest
in doing online activities if they see that the teacher is sort of asking them
to do something and then nothing is done with that particular content
read what other students have done and add your comments onto the screen
and if you notice i ain't have even more options because i can click on reactions
and i have the chance if i want to allow them to like their favorite post or to vote on their
favorite post or to star their favorite post or even to grade their favorite post now i haven't
used this grade button that often but i did use it very recently when i got a series of students
to write introductory um introductory sections to their essays and to put them up onto padlet
and then people to grade those based on a criteria so again lots of possibilities but the point I'm
trying to make here is that we can actually limit our students to first of all doing an activity and
putting up their content but then releasing the comments button so that students can add comments
associated with other pieces of work that other students have added onto the screen
you're working with students who are younger and you're maybe worried about what they're
going to put onto the screen another useful button when you create a padlet is to simply
click here and to come down and choose require approval and what that does is it basically means
that nothing will be added don't forget to click on save nothing will be added onto the padlet
until you have approved it and i'm going to quickly demonstrate this idea
and i can do that by copying the link i'm going to log in as a student so i'm logged in as a
student now and i'm going to click on the screen and try to add some content and as you can see
it says russ i'm going to put my name and i'm going to write something but you'll
notice it actually says have to click on the screen it actually says requires approval
and now even though i think that's been added onto the screen if we go back and see what the teacher
sees now you can see that the teacher can decide whether to delete or to approve if he approves
that will then or she approves that will appear on the screen and in this case i'm going to delete it
and then that actually just is wiped away so that approved button can be really useful
account if you have a free account you're always limited to three
but there's quite a few things you can do to keep a record of your previous padlets the
first one is to come up to the share button and to simply choose save as image now if you save
that as an image and it does take a few seconds for this to work you've then got an image of the
padlet and of course then you can delete that padlet from your collection so now i've got an
image of my padlet and of course what i can do now is just simply save that particular image
and to do that i could just right click and click on save image as you'll see that that image
is now a ping file png file pretty standard file and you could save that onto your computer
i'm going to add this for example into my google sites so i'm on my google sites i'm just giving
you an example you could obviously embed this in many places i'm going to create a new page
on my google site so i'm going to call it padlet okay and then click on done and then
just double click on the screen i'm going to go to the embed code I'm going to choose
embed and then I just paste that code in click on next and that is now inserted into my google sites
now that could be anywhere that could be in Moodle that could be an Edmodo that could be you know on
a website or on anywhere basically where you want to embed a copy of the padlet that you've created
maximum and when that happens you'll click on make a padlet and you'll realize that you can't
create one now what can you do about that well one obvious thing to do is that you can archive your
padlet so if i click here it is possible for me to take a padlet and archive it and then it will
be added to my archived and i can click down here and i can see that i've got three padlets archived
at the moment so that's one way of reducing the number of padlets the obvious thing to do though
is if you simply click on the padlet so let's just go back to one and then we can simply
click up here and turn that sorry click on the wrong button there click on the share button
save the image of the padlet so you've saved the image and i've already showed you how to do that
and then of course you can actually delete this padlet and then you that will again
free up space so if i was now just to close this one let's imagine that i've saved it as an image
okay and then i'm just going to come back to my padlets and then what i can do is i can actually
delete that padlet now to delete a padlet all that you need to do is click and then you just click on
delete padlet and you have to put in a code and then click on delete and that padlet is deleted i
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