

With Padlet I get to see students write on the wall, as they write. Once students are done you can skim through the answers and discuss some, but with some classes this can become frustrating as lessons can slow down while you try and find jems in the mess of post-it notes.
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When students post manual post-it notes they frequently huddle around the front waiting to get to the board, stick up their answers, and get back to their seats. As soon as they arrived I switched to Padlet.

I used to use traditional post-it note walls before my school obtained class sets of iPads. Secondly, as some students will take more time than others to post ideas you can have students who post quickly analyse and group different responses into themes, categories or compare differences in responses. Firstly, you can encourage students to take their time and “pinch” on a tablet or zoom on a PC\laptop (using ctrl and up scroll) to really analyse an image in detail before they write their ideas. Now, this has many benefits over a traditional post-it wall. Students can then post their ideas around the image or scanned text and it will appear on your interactive whiteboard in real time. So you can get students to really analyse an image or scanned text and to express their opinion about it. Padlet allows you to post an image to a wall as you create it or after you have created it. In this post, I’m going to share five good ways I’ve seen Padlet used successfully. However, if it is used well, Padlet can really enhance learning. When Padlet is held up to the SAMR model I’ve heard teachers complain that it only augments or substitutes a manual post-it note wall. It’s compatible with (almost) any device with a browser…Smartphones, iPads, Android tablets, and laptops will all work with it. If Padlet is new to you, it is an online post-it wall, that you create, and that you and your students can post to using a browser. Padlet is a great tool to deploy in your classroom.
