I started to play with this a couple of days ago. I am a big fan of Pintrest, and Padlet seems very similar-it is a way to keep images and ideas that I like in the same place, and accessible anywhere there is a computer with an internet connection. Padlet lets me do this, but allow others to collaborate with me. I like the idea of having students answer questions via visuals and words. It is really easy to add pictures and words.
I created three different padlets, two of which are for my classroom.
- "Special Education"--http://padlet.com/ayork3/quuf2aha3rki I created this page so that I could share this with my co-workers. The plan is that I would create a place where they could go to get suggestions about accommodations they could use in the classroom and info about some learning issues. It is not done in any stretch of the imagination.
- "Real World Math"--http://padlet.com/ayork3/2x74bi0c6etq. I created a place where students in my basic math class will have to come up with 2-3 examples of real world math that they can find pictures about and explain why they picked that example.
- "Community"--http://padlet.com/ayork3/4kokga166vu3. I also created a place where students in my basic social studies class will have to describe what they feel makes a community. This is to start working on doing some work around family and portland history.
I worry that once a student comes on to the pages, that they might mess up the whole thing by accident, or take credit for other student's work. I don't really know how to combat these issues.
