Padlet tutorial

What is Padlet?

Padlet is an online bulletin board that allows the students and teachers to work together. There are different options from maps to timelines. It is useful for gathering and sharing ideas in a creative way.

Benefits: This website is excellent for collaborative work. It encourages students' interaction. You can post images, links, Youtube videos, files, record audio.
Many teachers agree that Padlet is a very useful, engaging, interesting online tool, here there are some comments from them:

"It's beyond easy to use, the customizable interface is intuitive, and help is available around every corner." (2018, November)

"The versatility of Padlet presents kids with opportunities to share content and knowledge in ways most comfortable for them."(2018, November)

"Padlet is one of the more intuitive and appealing for kids. Colorful backgrounds and customization options let students add personality to walls, and opportunities to engage with others through voting and comments will pique their interest." (2018, November)

Tutorial

1- In order to start using Padlet, is not necessary for you to sign up if you just want to comment. But if you want to have your own wall and publish you need to sign up. You can use your google account or another mail account.

2- Click on the option "Make", you will be lead to a new page where you can find a lot of different templates to choose from. You select the one that you want to use.

3- You are allowed to change the title and add a description. 

4- You can choose the wallpaper that you want. You click on photos and there you will be presented with many options. You can also change the colors, font.

5- In order to be able to write you just need to click on the wall. 

6- You can also add photos, links, files, record audio, videos.

7- In the section of comments if you want people to be allowed to leave comments on your posts you should activate it. 

8- You can choose whether other people can only read, write, or edit your posts.

9- Privacy. You can choose if you want your wall to be public or private (only the creator can see it) You can either choose a password or secret key. Only the person who has the password or the URL  that was created with the secret key can be able to see the Padlet. You can copy the link or share it through email.

10- Padlet allows you to share your presentation via email, on social media, google classroom. You are also allowed to copy the link and share it with whoever you want.

11- Padlet allows you to export your presentation in different formats such as an image,  pdf file. You can also print it.

Sources:

• Common Sense Education. (2018, November). Retrieved From https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/padlet#:~:text=There%20are%20plenty%20of%20online,comments%20will%20pique%20their%20interest.