In this video, we are going to talk about our wonderful
collaboration tool for online teaching. This tool is called
Padlet. And there are countless ways you can use Padlet. And it
depends on your own creativity, you can use Padlet, as a
teacher, as a student or as a parent, you have to sign up with
padlet@padlet.com. And they allow you to open a free
account. And the main difference between a free and a paid
account is that in a free account, you have a limited
number of padlets, which you can create. So I have open an
account and I'm going to log into my account now. But before
I start this tutorial for someone who is first time at my
channel, my name is Tahir and I make videos about online
teaching tools and technology we have as a student or as a
teacher, and also about some of the topics which I teach. And I
have many online courses available, which you can have a
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upload videos on every Tuesday and Friday. And now let's start
this tutorial. You can use Padlet in many ways, and I am
going to show you few examples. The most common use of Padlet is
as a discussion board. So this is one of my padlets I have
created for this video. So I click on this. And what I have
done here is that I have thrown a discussion topic to my
students. And this is the title of the topic. And then I have
given some instructions on how they should talk about this
topic. And then what I do is I share the link of this Padlet,
which is essentially a bulletin board by clicking on this Share
icon. And now I have various options to share this link, I
can copy this link to clipboard can then send it to my students
via email. Or I can create QR code which they can scan with
their mobile phones, which normally they have, and they can
state land on this page, I can straight away email from within
this console by clicking on this email. And it will open my
Gmail, composing console and where I can type the email of my
students or a group of students and send this, I'm not going to
do this. So when they will click on the link, they will land on
this page. And what they can do is then they will simply click
on this plus icon. And then they can follow the instructions. For
example, they will write their name here and they can talk
about this topic. No, let's pretend that this is one of my
students. And if he wants to edit their comment, they can do
this. Whenever they bring the mouse inside this area, they
will get these options they can edit, they can delete, or if
they click on these three dots, and then click on Edit post,
they can also do it this way. Everyone has the ability to
upload a file from the computer by clicking on this and I will
show you in a minute how you can upload a file when I create this
Padlet they can link to any webpage, they can search in
Google videos, images, gifts, and they can straight away
capture their webcam video. So they have to give permission and
then they can capture the video. If someone click on these three
dots, they have few other options. And the most important
is this draw option. And if they click on draw, students can
actually write something here. They have change of color
options and other things, they can change the background as
well. And if they want, they can save this as well. So let's save
this, and this drawing will appear underneath the text, they
can also put some images here. And those images will probably
look better than this text. So this is a very good way of
interaction with the students and engaging the students in a
conversation. Now let's talk about how to create a Padlet and
some other features. And then I will show you another example of
Padlet. So in order to create a Padlet you click on this Avatar
and then home and now I can click on this make a Padlet and
then there are a few formats available here. You can select
any of these. So let us say I select this wall format. Now it
has created a new Padlet on the right hand side you can change
the name of this Padlet.
Then you click on next and you can click on start posting and
your Padlet is ready. It's very simple. No in this case, we have
just changed the name and this subtitle but you have many other
options and those options are available. If you click on these
three dots and then modify you will again see the same screen
and no we are going to look at some other options. The first is
this icon. And if I click on this, we have a huge set of
emojis and other icons available. You can choose one
from Hear, or you can keep scrolling down. And you will see
all these icons here. But if you click on this site second icon,
you will see animals and nature. The third one is about food and
drink, then activity, and so on. So these are more than enough.
But if you want to add your own, you can click on this add your
own. And then you can simply upload from your computer, you
can take a photo, you can draw, you can draw it here, you can
search in images. So there are a lot of options for you, you can
even paste a link here, or let's go back, go back once again,
then there are two color schemes available, light one and the
dark one, then how do you want posts to appear. So normally,
the new post should appear first, whether you allow viewers
to comment on post or not. So this you can set here, whether
you need approval, or you want to filter, any bad words, you
can do it here. But the most important thing, which you might
want to do is to modify the address. As you can see that
this number is very odd. Instead of this, I can put something
more understandable. For example, my brand name, I can
put something like this. And then I must click Save. If I
don't click Save, and I click here, I will see this message.
In that case, you click on keep working and save your changes.
And now you can close. Another very important thing you might
want to change is the wallpaper. And if I click on this, though,
the important thing is that now you are on the next window. And
then you can choose from any of the pictures available. So let
us say I want to choose this image. And then if I click here,
I will see the same message, because I have not saved this.
So I click keep working. And now I have to go back one step. And
one more until I see this Save button. And now I click Save.
And now if I click here, it has changed. So this is how you can
change the background. And now I want to show you another
example, if I click on this Padlet This is another possible
use of Padlet. So what you can do in this case is let's say you
are parent and you have one son, and you want to keep a record of
your son's homework for all the subjects. So you can create this
Padlet by using a format which is available column format. Now
we have columns. And I can add another column by clicking on
this and I can add interest into this column. And in these
columns, I have arranged week one, week two, week three. And
then what you can do is you can take the pictures of the
homework and then you can arrange here in column one, for
first week, column two for second week, which is this is
subject one, subject two, and let's add another subject, if I
click on this plus, and then I can upload from my computer, so
I click on this, and then I click on pick file. So I click
on this. And now I have this image of subject three year,
don't click on this plus, because this will remove the
attachment, you can add the title here, and then you can
seek some feedback from the teacher. And then whatever is
you want to know from the teacher. And then you click just
outside. So this is another way to use Padlet law in the free
version because you have only a limited number of packets
available. So what you can do is you can save these padlets as
PDF or as images are as a CSV file. So to do that, you click
on this share. And then we have these few options. So let's say
I want to save as PDF. And now I can choose the paper size. And
then I simply say publish PDF.
And no a perfect beautiful PDF is ready for me to download and
keep it as a record or for any purpose. I simply click on this
download and I can save this on my computer. So if you are using
free account, you might have to save your Padlet from time to
time, then delete the Padlet and create a new one keeping
yourself within the allowed limit. So I just closed this
now. Now I can close this as well. No at the end, I would
like to mention another very important thing about the
privacy of this Padlet and that you can control from this Share
icon if I click on Share, and then you click on Change
privacy, you have these four options. And you can see the
description of all these whether you want private, password
protected secret, our public. No secret is very good. Because
this will keep this Padlet hidden from the public. But if
you send link to your students, they will still be able to
access the Padlet You can also set visitors permission here. So
this is awesome. So very important area where you should
have a look and know I can close this. Now there are two setting
icons one is this one. And this is basically the Modify option
which is available within these three dots, three dots and
modified so this modify can directly be accessed with this
gear icon. But there is another gear icon inside your avatar
area. And if you click on this gear icon settings, no here you
can modify your email address, your password, and some other
information. If you want to use the Padlet API, you can submit
an application here and you can also delete your account. So
these options are available in this area. And this concludes
our tutorial about Padlet I hope you like this video if so please
give it a thumbs up and share with other teachers because it's
good to share the ideas. Thanks for watching and see you next
time.