Hello everybody! My name is Misbah and today I'm going to give you a quick tour around Wakelet.
So what is Wakelet? Some of you may have heard about it before - it's really simple. Wakelet is
a platform that allows you to quickly save any kind of mixed media content you find on the web
arrange it into visual, engaging collections, add your own content to these collections and then
share them with your students, your teachers and your learning community. You can also
invite your students to these collections so they can contribute their own ideas and work
together to create some really amazing things. One platform, one simple concept, unlimited
possibilities; and this last part is really important. Wakelet is 100 percent free to use
and 100 percent unlimited...how awesome is that? Now, there are three important areas where Wakelet
can really help you. The first one is organize your learning resources quickly and easily.
The second one is sharing those resources in a more engaging and visual way and the third
one is to boost collaborative skills within your learning communities. So real quick,
let me show you a few awesome examples of how educators just like you are using Wakelet to
achieve some incredible things in their schools, their classrooms and their professional lives.
So first of all we're to head to Brandi Reams' collection. Now, Brandi is a kindergarten teacher,
North Carolina, and she uses Wakelet in so many different ways but one of the best ways that she's
is to actually curate these amazing interactive visual newsletters that she shares with her school
community. So in this collection right here you can see one of Brandi's collections - one
of Brandi's newsletters. She's got a Flipgrid video here, she's got the week's goals so this
is really awesome when it comes to instructing the parents on what's happening in the class and for
the students to understand where they are. Again another Flipgrid video, a YouTube video of the
kids doing the lion dance and then all of these little resources here - so, a PDF and a website
and she's organized them in an incredible way, and as you can see all of a sudden rather than just
having hyperlinks one after the other...this is a really really engaging newsletter and it's simply
done by just copying and pasting links and I'll show you that in just a few moments. So here we go
sharing newsletters creating an amazing newsletter that you can share with whoever you want.
So next up we have this amazing collection created by a teacher called Edward Vandesampel and he
wanted to teach his students a little bit more about the civil rights movements in the United
States and get his students to think a little bit more deeper into what that meant. So, he
created a Wakelet collection as a lesson plan and here you can see he's got some text here this is
instruction he's added some YouTube videos, he's also directly recorded a Flipgrid video directly
into the collection - I'll show you how to do that in just a few moments. Again, a PDF and then more
instruction. Now this link here actually posts to a student response Wakelet. So he shared a unique
code with his students they've gone to that code and then being able to add their own responses and
their own thoughts and complete this particular assignment um in their own particular way. So,
I really love this collection. I think it's an amazing example of a lesson plan and another
really good example of pulling lots of different resources together, using that mixed media effect
to create an amazing lesson plan. Lastly, we've got Juli Parsons. Now, Juli Parsons this is
what you're looking at right now is a Wakelet profile and Juli Parsons is a one of our amazing
Student Ambassadors and she's created a digital portfolio on Wakelet, right? So, what she's been
able to do here is turn her profile page into this amazing interactive portfolio where she's able to
showcase all of the best things that she's done during her academic career and also spilling out
into her own personal life as well. So, you can look here - this is a digital portfolio,
she's got her resume videos, graphics, the student ambassador program that she did
the S.W.A.T. group that she's a member of, so special extracurricular activities there and
then also - this is really cool...she's got the opportunity to share things like her own passions
and her own business which in this particular case is a a bakery called Madam Pastry, and of
course she's the school mascot she gets to share some really cool videos there as well. So, when
it comes to sharing resources Wakelet is super super easy. I'm going to show you really quickly
how to create your first Wakelet collection and then share it who with whoever you want
so I'm in my home area here on Wakelet and if you go to Wakelet.com and sign up you can go get to
this home area sign up and - obviously this area will be empty but you'll be able to create your
collections and get that filled up in no time. I'm going to click 'create a new collection' and lets
say that I'm an Educator and I want to create a collection on climate change for my students right
I want to create a collection which kind of brings together a whole bunch of resources to share
with them so they get a better grasp and a better understanding of what climate change actually is.
Super simple; I give my collection a title and I call it 'climate change', write a quick
description, and then I can go ahead and add a cover image so I can either upload an image
from my own computer or I can choose from a free library of images that we've got, so if I
search 'climate change' into this...you'll be able to see that
there's lots of these amazing high definition images which I can use I'm going to grab this
one here and that's going to become the cover image for this collection and I can also go and
click on this little gear icon at the top click add a background image and I'll do the same here
let's just pick the first one there so what I'm doing now is I'm making the collection really
engaging just by adding pictures, just by making it look good. The alternative to this would be a
let's say a dock or hyperdoc even where it's it's just the white background with links I'm going to
show you some really amazing things. Right now, this right here is where the magic starts - this
little plus button. This is a magic Wakelet 'plus button' when I click it, you can see all of the
different kinds of content which I can add into this Wakelet collection so I'm going to start by
just finding this BBC article here about climate change I'm going to go to the top right click
copy the URL go back to the Wakelet collection and check this out i paste it in and like magic, that
item appears here with an image and with a description, and the really cool thing is
I can actually go ahead and contextualize this collection as this this piece of content as well
so rather than just keeping it as it is i can go right in click the edit button and change this
to 'read this first' and add that context to the lesson or to the particular activity that I want
my students to be engaged with. That's just one kind of piece of content which you can add
to it I'm going to click the 'plus button' again and let's see...on SoundCloud this is a really
cool podcast about climate change let's just copy that again, right-click copy, go back to Wakelet,
right-click paste it in and that SoundCloud podcast will embed into the Wakelet collection
which means that the students aren't going to have to go off to soundcloud.com...they're going to be
able to listen to it there and then within this particular environment within this collection,
and of course the same thing applies to YouTube videos as well. So let me just go ahead,
copy this, and I'm sure by now you're probably getting the idea.
You're taking this mixed media content, you're pulling it all together into one place and you're
creating this awesome engaging interactive environment for your students to learn from.
The same thing applies to social media posts as well. So check this out - I'm on a tweet here from
the UN, I've clicked on the tweet once again right click copy back to Wakelet 'plus button' right-click,
paste it in and this will become second nature and learned behavior for you because you can
just copy and paste things really quickly and add them on. We've also got a an extension
across all the browsers that you'll be able to do this even quicker. Okay, and now lastly I'm
going to show you how to add text you just literally click this little text button here
and then just write whatever you want many teachers use this text element as a way to
kind of share instruction and add a bit more context to the resources which they're sharing,
so let's just finish that. Also can make it a header make it bigger underline it very nice
and then I can rearrange things so I can click on easy reorder mode and I can rearrange
these items as I want and the really cool part is there's four different layouts that you can
choose depending on the type of content that you want to get across to your students. So with this
one here, I'm in the 'media view' which means that all of this will play in-line and it's embedded.
I've got a 'compact view' which is just for the links really,
I've got a 'grid view' which is amazing when you want to compare resources,
'mood board' where you can just drag and drop things around - it's a bit of organized chaos
- you can have a lot of fun with this with your students, especially when you're collaborating
with them because it's real time so there's all these amazing resources flying in at once.
Okay, so let's say I've created this collection and I want to share it with my students.
Up here in the top-right we've got three different privacy settings. 'Public',
'Unlisted' and 'Private'. 'Private' means only you can see it. 'Unlisted' means only people that you
share the link with can see it, and then 'Public' means that everybody can see it and it appears
on your Wakelet profile. Let's just make this unlisted for now. In the top-left hand corner,
I can click invite and actually invite my students to this collection where they can contribute their
own thoughts and their own ideas to it by using the QR code or a copy code, or just a copy link
you can discover how to do this by just going to our YouTube channel or Help Center. You'll be able
to find out really easily how to collaborate with your students on Wakelet, so I'm going to click
'Done' here because I've finished this collection and I'm going to click the 'Share' button because
I want to share this with my students or with my learning community. We've got loads of different
options here; Google Classroom, we've got Teams, got Twitter or you can just simply copy and paste
this link, share it with whoever you want and when they visit it they don't need a Wakelet
account. They're able to just view it exactly as though it's a web page. I can also export this
as a PDF and I can embed so the really cool part is i can actually embed this Wakelet collection
into my LMS - into my learning management system, or I can embed it into my blog or my page...and
that's it! That's the uh the way clip platform in a nutshell now just bear in mind that I've only
shown you just a few examples of the amazing things that educators can do on Wakelet.
I've shown you digital portfolios, classroom newsletters and lesson plans but there's so much
more. We're talking about learning resources, putting them all into one place, exit tickets,
entry tickets, assignments, feedback...there is so much more that you can do. One of the best places
to learn these ideas is to follow us on Twitter and join the Wakelet Community. With the Wakelet
Community, your ideas and your feedback become reality on the platform! Every single feature
which I've shown you here has all been because of your feedback as an Educator, so we take that
really seriously. It's a big part of what we do at Wakelet, so thank you so much for joining me
for this quick 10 minute presentation and I hope that this sparks your journey to learn a
little bit more about Wakelet...but for now, take care, stay safe and we'll see you again very soon.
Bye bye!