![]() ![]() Teachers additonally have found it much easier to share padlets with their students this way, the teachers no longer have to enter the username/email address of every student whom they would like to post on their padlet. They can see it right in their list of padlets. They are also visible to others with accounts under your Backpack school. Padlets by default are not public so you can't find them on search engines. Student accounts can be also added without an email address. Members are added to ensure private access. Even better, create a free trial account! Backpack Featuresīelow are some of Backpack's most notable features:īackpack is an exclusive workspace for schools. You can watch this awesome demo video to see it in action. More details here.Padlet Backpack is designed to help teachers and students collaborate easily in a private environment. You can check them out here.Įlementor is a powerful tool that helps with clean visual design for your website as well as marketing to further your website’s influence. If you’re interested in creating a website, these are a couple of programs I personally use and highly recommend: Bluehost is a web host that offers a professional platform for your website. I use Adobe Spark Post to design all of my YouTube thumbnails, as well as all my social media graphics. They’re currently offering a free trial! Get more details here. Screenflow is a dynamic, intuitive video editing software that I use to create all of my YouTube videos. Interested in the software I use to create my videos? Check out the links below! Many of these products offer a free trial to start and just clicking on the link helps to support The New EdTech Classroom! ![]() Why Education Technology?: The Ultimate Guide How to Use Education Technology: The Ultimate GuideĪnd to read more about why I believe technology must be a central part of public education today, click here : But given its low barrier to entry, dynamic platform, and free to low cost, Padlet should be a part of all teachers’ toolkits, whether teaching remotely or in a brick and mortar building with your students.įor additional strategies for how to use technology to personalize learning, increase engagement, foster creativity, and more, click here: Padlet isn’t the only way to build community, make student thinking visible, or demonstrate to students that the work they do matters, nor should it be. Publishing work helps instill a sense of pride in one’s work, ownership over one’s own learning, and can lead to higher levels of student engagement.įor additional ideas, be sure to check out this other post: How to Teach with Padlet. Publishing work is an important last step because it communicates that the work they just put so much effort into has value beyond just getting a grade. Showcase Work: Whether during remote learning, or in the classroom, Padlet is my favorite tool to use for students to publish their finished work.If students are working on writing a thesis, they can all post drafts of their writing and give each other feedback. During math class, students can use the drawing tool to show the steps to a problem. Make Thinking Visible: Padlet is a powerful active participation tool that can give you a clear picture of student understanding.Or, sometimes I will set up a digital KWL for students to post what they know, want to know, and what they learned about a topic. Or, if we are going to be studying how geography impacts human settlement, I might have students post a picture of a place in the world where they would choose to build a village, and then explain why. ![]() If, for example, students are going to be learning about a historical controversy, I might have students create a post about what controversies they already know about. Introduce a Topic: During the engage phase of a lesson, I often have students post to Padlet to share prior knowledge or anticipate future learning.Although there are many ways to use Padlet, the three following purposes are a great starting point: ![]()
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