Padlet has been a preferred software for employees and college students at Sussex for a while, which is why we now have a Padlet Backpack licence and a spread of guides and case research on our web site.
As instructing and studying have moved on-line this software is getting used much more. One of many principal causes folks like Padlet is its versatility – with a clean digital wall the probabilities are infinite, however two current additions to the vary of doable codecs allow you to prolong the ways in which you should utilize Padlet.
Maps
The brand new Maps format, with a spread of various types to select from offers you a map of the world on which you’ll be able to pin posts, containing any of the standard vary of Padlet content material together with textual content, recordsdata, pictures, weblinks, video, audio and drawings. You possibly can zoom out and in so this will concentrate on the entire world or only one city!
This might be nice for many alternative disciplines. Listed here are some concepts for a way you would possibly get your college students to use it:
- Introductions initially of a module. College students and workers might every add a publish pinned on their house nation with a brief textual content, video or audio introduction of themselves and/or their homeland.
- Constructing neighborhood by sharing concepts for locations to go to within the space across the college.
- Mapping occasions and/or folks to indicate the place historic, political or social actions arose and unfold.
- Sharing media from discipline journeys, pinned to the places the place they have been created.
- Figuring out facets of geography and/or posting questions on them for others to answer.
These are only a few concepts, however something that may be associated to a spot may benefit from a Padlet map. You possibly can study extra about maps on the Padlet weblog.
Right here is an instance of a Padlet utilizing the Map format.
Timelines
In case you and your college students are extra involved with time than house, then a Padlet utilizing the Timeline format might be for you. This isn’t as refined as instruments that focus solely on timelines, similar to TikiToki or Sutori, however it’s simple to make use of, versatile and accessible free for employees and college students as a part of the Sussex Padlet Backpack licence.
You possibly can add all the standard varieties of content material that Padlet accepts, together with textual content, recordsdata, pictures, weblinks, video, audio and drawings. Every publish is added at some extent on the timeline that you just select and others might be added earlier than, after, or between current posts. You possibly can transfer posts round so it’s simple to rearrange your timeline as crucial.
This might be nice for a lot of completely different disciplines. Listed here are some concepts for a way you would possibly get your college students to make use of it:
- Making a timeline of key ideas and/or theorists.
- Including cultural context to historic factors.
- Describing and discussing the phases of a course of, similar to an experiment.
- Creating a category journal describing and discussing key factors throughout a module.
These are only a few concepts, however something that may be associated to some extent in time, or organized in a particular sequence may benefit from a Padlet timeline. You possibly can study extra about timelines within the Padlet weblog.
Right here is an instance of a Padlet utilizing the Timeline format.
Accessibility and help
Not all of the features in Padlet are absolutely accessible, although that is one thing they’re engaged on (see Accessiblity and Padlet). When utilizing Padlet you must contemplate whether or not it’s good to present alternate options or modify the exercise to permit everybody to participate. If you recognize that college students are utilizing screen-reading software program to entry web content material, or counting on keyboard enter to navigate laptop assets (i.e. don’t use a mouse), you must contemplate alternate methods to incorporate these college students within the deliberate exercise. Care must also be taken that wallpaper and color schemes utilized in Padlet don’t drawback college students who’re partially-sighted or have a color imaginative and prescient deficiency.
