Padlet, simple and powerful!

Through struggling with the new online websites last week, "Padlet" is the best and easiest tool for online teamwork (at least for me😂)

The website is here

🔆Introduction

Padlet was originally a college student entrepreneurship project, called "whitewall". As the name suggests, it is to give people a white wall which people can doodle freely with their imagination.

🔆Features - SIMPLE and POWERFUL!

Padlet provides users with a digital "white wall" where people can create things for their preference. 

"Simple" means that it is easy to use. Even people who use the Padlet for the first time can learn to use it quickly. 

"Powerful" refers to that Padlet can provide users with seven different templates, and they can choose the appropriate template on the basis of their own needs.

For example, students can choose the "Timeline" to help students learn historical events in a certain period of time in chronological order.

🔆Collaborative Learning Function

Padlet can not only be used as a tool for individual knowledge management, but also support collaborative groups in interaction, creation, group evaluation and other activities.

1. Provide cooperation platform

A group can jointly own a padlet account and everyone can log in or the team leader create a web wall firstly, and then select "visitor can edit" in privacy settings to jointly edit the content in the specified web wall. Group members can upload the collected resources to the web wall around the same learning topic,  which help them share resources and broaden horizons at the same time.

2. Group members can communicate anonymously

When editing the content, group members can choose not to display the name of the editor, so that members can write freely and alleviate the anxiety caused by worrying about their superficial ideas. The focus will be shifted and shift the content itself. Besides, anonymous opinions are more friendly to passive and introverted group members.

3. Saving and sharing are convenient and fast

Every web wall in Padlet can be saved automatically after editing. Also, Padlet supports the export function, which can export the edited web wall into pictures, PDF and other formats. Alternatively, team members can choose to share the edited web wall in other web spaces and learn from the opinions and suggestions of other teams or students.

🔆Consideration

Group collaborative learning  is a learning method widely used in today's classroom and network learning. It can cultivate students' cooperative ability and stimulate students' creative thinking, but sometimes the learning effect is not high. 

• In group cooperation, teachers should pay attention to the division of groups and reasonably plan groups according to students' characteristics and learning contents.

• Pay attention to the role allocation of team members and mobilize the enthusiasm of each member.

• The focus is on the formulation of group cooperation evaluation rules and the selection of reasonable group evaluation and individual evaluation methods, so that each group and each member can get the due and reasonable evaluation.

In addition, the limitation of mobile digital devices: not all the schools prove that students can bring these to class.

Overall, padlet will become a good tool to promote group collaborative learning as long as it is used properly!😉