Kristi Reyes: OK. Hi, everybody. Welcome. So glad to see you, at least see your name and see a lot of familiar names and some folks even from my own school. Thanks for coming out and joining me. Hope you can see my screen OK. It says it's loading for some reason.

Melinda Holt: Because the internet is slow.

Kristi Reyes: The internet got a little slow.

Melinda Holt: We have to be patient.

Kristi Reyes: Yeah. This is intended to be a bit interactive. So as Melinda said, I'm going to be asking you to share some things in the chat in a moment. Wow. Still loading.

Melinda Holt: Kristi, try stop share and then load your slides deck up--

Kristi Reyes: OK.

Melinda Holt: --and then share.

Kristi Reyes: All righty.

Melinda Holt: See, folks? We have tech problems too. It's not just you. I'm going to pause the recording just for a sec.

Kristi Reyes: OK.

Melinda Holt: Now start.

Kristi Reyes: OK, here we go. Try it one more time. Well, it doesn't want to show the first slide. But we'll just skip that. My name is Kristi Reyes. Thank you for joining me today.

I am an ESL teacher located here in North San Diego County and really glad to see you all here today. Wish we could see each other face-to-face. Usually, I do these sorts of workshops in a face-to-face sitting with hands-on in a computer lab. So this will be a lot of me talking. But I do want to make it interactive.

So already right now, if you could type in the chat and remember Q&A is for questions. Chat is where we can communicate with each other. Type in what you teach and answer this question. Type yes or no in the chat. Are you familiar with Padlet? Go ahead and type yes or no and what you teach.

Melinda Holt: OK, we have ESL, math, GED. I'm seeing yeses, familiar but haven't used yet. No. ESL. No. Not familiar. I teach ESL and computer. No. I'm thinking there's more nos than yeses.

Kristi Reyes: Really? Wow. OK.

Melinda Holt: It looks like it, yeah.

Kristi Reyes: It's been around for a long time. So that's always a positive. Sometimes websites come, and they gain a lot of popularity and then they disappear. Or they gain a lot of popularity for us teachers and then they make us pay.

So there is a part of Padlet that is still free. And like you, I've been using it. I think the first time I used it was more than 10 years ago. So I was grandfathered in to this new, like the old way where it didn't have to pay anything. And I could have multiple Padlets.

But going online, fully online, I have rediscovered different possibilities with Padlet that I never had imagined before. So I would like to share that. I've tried to get examples from all different discipline areas, not just ESL. So I'm sure that everyone is going to walk away with this one idea that you can use for integrating Padlet into your instruction. So what is Padlet? For any of you who are familiar with it, if you have been using it, provide an example in the chat or explain in your own words, what is Padlet?

Melinda Holt: Online bulletin board.

Kristi Reyes: OK, there we go, yes. Anybody else?

Melinda Holt: Bulletin board. Bulletin board we can all post to.

Kristi Reyes: Yes. Yes, great. So the only thing I would maybe add to that definition of Padlet is multimedia because you can post in multiple ways and include many different things. So yeah, it's just like the bulletin board you might have in your classroom where you're posting students' work and information and so on.

So yes, it's a multimedia bulletin board where students can add text, images, video, audio, hyperlinks, and files, and a whole bunch of different things. So it has grown. The possibilities with Padlet in the past few years have expanded. So I'm going to go over some different uses and then show you some specifics. And towards the end, we'll have you see a short demo and then have you post to a Padlet.

So it could be something like an interactive syllabus. If you provide syllabi to your students, it could be something that you share with them and showing different things on a calendar, could be linked different files that you want students to do assignments. It could be something like that. It could actually even going further than just a syllabus.

It could become a learning management system for you. Learning management system is where you have everything for your course in one place. And usually, students have to log in, right? For this, they wouldn't have to log in.

So you could have weekly activities all in one place, all assignments. You could link to quizzes and everything. So it could be like a Moodle, a Canvas, a Blackboard. It's just a little more simplified, but that would be a possibility.

So teachers could use it to post class information, announcements, assignments, agendas, homework, supplementary practice on different websites, course materials. As I said, it could be your LMS, linking even to other Padlets. A lot of teachers like to use it for bookmarking, in other words, curating all the different websites that they've found and different materials they've found online. So going back to it, you wouldn't have to search through your bookmarks in your web browser, but you could go to that one Padlet and find everything you were looking for.

As I will show you, some teachers who are providing professional development use Padlet as the medium for delivering the content. And if you are within your department or your program area, you could be sharing either among the faculty and the staff or even with all of your students school information, resources, updates, and so on. If you are ever absent from a class and you need a substitute, you could put your lesson plan on Padlet. So those are some ways that teachers could use it.

As far as integrating Padlet into your classroom activities, typically, how I've used Padlet in the past as a place where students could introduce themselves during the first week or icebreakers. But as I returned to Padlet with this remote instruction, wow. There are so many different possibilities. You could have students document their learning goals for the class, educational or career goals. We know that goal setting becomes more of a realistic type of activity when people write down their goals and share with others. So goal setting in adult ed is a best practice. So this could be a resource for that.

You could have students do writing based on the vocabulary you have taught them or the grammar you have been teaching them if you're teaching English or ESL. A lot of times, we do activities in a classroom where we have a picture or a prompt that we use as pre-reading to activate students' shemata about the content we're going to teach, find out what they already know, introduce the topic. If you're using a video, it could be a previewing activity that you post onto Padlet and have students respond to or to open up a new unit or area of study in your class, any sort of that information that you're trying to draw from them to see what they already know about the topic.

Brainstorming, so brainstorming in a group, this is actually some activity that I have been doing with my online course that I'm teaching now is I was thinking, how could I possibly, within Zoom, have students brainstorm in groups? So I'll show you how I did that. And it's a great tool for that because, again, everybody from the class is in one space.

Listing pros and cons. Any sort of prewriting activities that you do, word webs or mind maps and things, could be done on Padlet. If you teach history, then one of the new types of walls on Padlet are timelines. So you could have students present biographies, autobiographies, or history of a certain era.

You could use Padlet for scavenger hunts and webquests. I don't know if you've ever heard of a webquest. If you know what a webquest is, can you type yes or no in the chat if you know what a webquest is. Do you know? Type yes or no.

Melinda Holt: I'd say about 70% no.

Kristi Reyes: OK.

Melinda Holt: Well, no. 80% no. 20% yes.

Kristi Reyes: OK. So look it up after this. It was a professor at San Diego State University, I think, quite a few years back. He came up with this type of learning activity where you have students do some-- you have links to different things you want them to read or watch online. And they're going through these steps and ending up with an end product usually.

So I don't think I have an example of a webquest necessarily here. But I do have an example of a scavenger hunt. So it's got that similar idea where students are visiting different places online and then coming up with some sort of response, whether that's an essay or a video or whatever.

You can have students submit assignments on Padlet. So they could work on some assignment maybe on Google Docs or Google Slides. And they could submit the URL. So that could be a repository of different assignments that you are giving in your class.

If you're in the sciences, for example, if you teach in those areas, you could explain processes or how-tos or have students do that as well. So you could-- if you ever include some sort of project where students are explaining how to do something that they know how to do, Padlet is a great place to do that with the timeline.

You could have debates, discussions. Four corners is how I've recently used Padlet. So I'll explain about that if you're not familiar with that activity coming up. You could have students post their favorite apps, websites, videos, or other online resources for learning in your subject area.

Jigsaw reading, I don't know if you're familiar with that activity. What you can do with jigsaw reading is you have perhaps a longer reading, and you divide your students up into groups. And then a certain group is responsible for a certain section of the reading. And then they go and they explain that section of the reading to their classmates.

So yes, I see a couple of questions in the chat. Can students submit work that is written on paper? Well, probably how you would have them do that best is to take a photo if they've right written on paper. And they could, with their phone, they could go to your Padlet wall and add that photo of what they've written. That would be a possibility, yes.

So yeah, that would be better than having everybody text you their work if they're doing paper-based work. Because I've tried that before with a video project. And it was chaos. I had different videos coming at me from all kinds of different ways. So the benefit would be the Padlet is one place where you would find everything. Yes.

And Karen asked, "In a jigsaw activity, is there a way that the students do not see the other parts of the reading?" I imagine there is either by emailing specific groups. Or you could have two or three depending on how many different groups you use for the jigsaw activity. You have different Padlets for each group to see. And then what you could do is then one Padlet where they come together and teach the other groups, yes.

Can you post audio on Padlet? Yes, you can. So an audio response to a prompt, like if, for example, that you-- I don't know if anyone here teaches citizenship. You could put some of those 100 questions either in an audio file, so only listening, or in a text. And they could answer by recording their answers audio files, yes.

OK, so let's look at a couple of other things that you can do for class activities. Do you know what this word means, backchannel? Type yes or no in the chat.

Melinda Holt: No, no.

Kristi Reyes: No? OK.

Melinda Holt: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Kristi Reyes: OK. So I'm not sure where this term came up, where it's from. But I remember almost 10 years ago, I think, it was where I attended a TESOL International convention. And a lot of younger teachers really were demonstrating a lot of great tech use. And one of them is backchannel.

So someone would be presenting. But they said, hey, this is where you can, with this hashtag on Twitter, you can be asking questions to each other or responding while I'm giving this presentation. So similar with your students, while you're presenting something, you could have them have this Padlet open. And they could be responding or asking questions instead of interrupting you. Then you can look at the backchannel after you have finished presenting the information.

You can have surveys, voting, class feedback. So it could be perhaps linking to a survey that you create on Google forms. But the voting is right within Padlet. They don't need to go anywhere else. So I'll show you that in a moment.

Students could ask and answer questions, submit homework, as I said. Group projects, this is a great place to do group projects because students can all come together on one Padlet. As I said, timelines, biography, history, graphic organizers, the Venn diagram, KWL. Does anybody know what KWL is? Go ahead and type that in the chat.

Melinda Holt: One yes. Couple nos. Another yes. And then no, no, no, yes, yes, no, no, no, no, yes, yes.

Kristi Reyes: OK. So about half. OK. So KWL is a technique that you use pre-reading or pre any sort of unit or subject, topic that you're going to start teaching. You have students write what they know already about the topic, what they want to learn. And after they have been taught or read or seen a video or whatever the activity is, what they learned. So it's a great way for students to start thinking about what they already know, for you to see what they already know, yes.

So it says a couple questions. Can the teacher correct a student's uploaded homework on the Padlet? Yeah. There would be a couple ways you could do that. You could respond in text. So if you create a Padlet and allow commenting on posts, then you could comment that way.

And then can we add a Padlet to Canvas? And I think there was a previous question. Padlet does not currently have integration with Canvas. Some different sites like Flipgrid and Quizlet do have integration, but Padlet, not yet that I know of.

So what I would do in Canvas and what I have done is I just create a page or create an assignment, and I put the link. So it will take them out of Canvas. But then their time is still tracked within Canvas. So even though they're having to leave, as long as they started in Canvas and then come back to it, we're pretty good with that. So yes, thank you for those questions.

So diagramming or pre-reading or idea generating can be done on Padlet. Class publications. Maybe it's as you come towards the end of the term, you could collect one best work of each student. And it could be there like showcase of their work. Book reports, reviews, summaries, entry and exit tickets.

So an entry ticket would be if, yesterday, I taught something new, and we practiced a little bit. And when students come back to class on Monday, as they come in, I could have the QR code for the Padlet. OK, well, they're not coming into the classroom. But I could have that posted somewhere, emailed to them, or texted to them. And they can go to that link and answer a question, so that I can see if they remember what I taught them yesterday, right?

An exit ticket is a similar idea, formative assessment to see if students were able to grasp and retain the information that you taught them. Eportfolios, so portfolio is the students' best work over the time in your class, so putting it online in one place for the student. And I'll show you an example of that. And you could have students give feedback or suggest class activities that they would like to do on a Padlet.

And so Ingrid asked, how do we connect it in Zoom? Well, I'm going to show you at the end when I demo making a Padlet. You can then share the URL in the chat. That's the way that we would share within Zoom.

OK, so for those of you who have used or you are using now Padlet, in the chat, type in one or two things that you think are its good features.

Melinda Holt: Nobody's typing. Using video in Padlet.

Kristi Reyes: Video.

Melinda Holt: Easy to use. Beautiful graphics. Visual organization. Multimedia. Quick setup. Posting easily. Commenting. Organization. I can add all my content in one place. Love the timeline. Easy to use. No log in.

Kristi Reyes: Yeah, great. I mean, that's exactly what I have too. So could I ask my students to meet me in Padlet and share a PowerPoint I uploaded and can discuss it together? I'm sure that's possible. Meet me in Padlet. Share a PowerPoint I uploaded.

Yeah. So you could link the PowerPoint as a file in Padlet and say, OK, everybody meet me here at this time. Let's look at the PowerPoint. So they're doing it independently looking at the PowerPoint. It's not live like Zoom would be. And then have the discussion right there in that Padlet, yes, I do think you could do that. Students love it. Interactive. Students don't have to put their name. Yes.

So yeah, the newer thing since when I first started using Padlet, this is not new, new. It's been around for a few years now. But newer is that there are new types of walls. So the first one you see there on the top left is just the standard. Students posting. And it goes horizontally. And then it goes to the next row. And you can see there are different lengths of the posts and so on.

A newer one is canvas. And that is where things can be scattered and grouped and connected. So that would be great for mind mapping and webbing and that kind of activity or showing a process as well. Stream, I don't really love stream. But it does have some good uses.

When you use a blog or you read a blog, the posts are coming in chronologically. And that's kind of what this one is, the stream. So it's easy to read top to bottom feed. So it's just going in a vertical row, OK?

A grid is whereby you arrange content in rows of boxes. So it's going across. The newer one that is awesome is the shelf. I was just racking my brain trying to figure out a way for students to do group brainstorming. It could also be a great place to do pros and cons. Any sort of problem solving activities, that could be your best bet right there, shelf. And I'll show you an example.

As I mentioned, backchannel, so they're chatting sort of on the Padlet as you're presenting. And then you visit that Padlet to see what was going on and how they were reacting while you were presenting. A map is a newer one. And I'll show you how you can do that. But probably if you teach history or different types of things, that would be a good one. For those of us who teach ESL, this is awesome. This is perfect for students to be able to show where they're from.

And a timeline does not only have to be used as a timeline. So I'll show you some examples. So a lot of the examples I'm going to show are not things I created. But I just went through their gallery and found some examples. I did the footwork for you, so you can see many different things.

Padlet is completely free. And you record who is logging into your Padlet. Well, you can. So there are different privacy settings for Padlet that if you were to have students log in with or enter a password to enter the Padlet. Then you could see respond. And yeah, so it is free, yes.

OK, so some of the benefits. As you saw, a variety of walls. There are many beautiful backgrounds and designs. And you can even upload your own image for a background. It's super easy teacher setup. You can create a wall in a minute. And super easy student use.

When you share the URL, the QR code, however you decide to share your Padlet wall, all they need to do is either double click if they're on a computer, double tap or tap once if they're on a phone or other device. Or I'll show you that there is, as you can see, that red circle that's usually down in the bottom right, which reminds me a lot of Google Docs and things. You're usually looking for that plus sign. They can also just touch there to enter.

Multi-platform, so you don't have to worry. Oh, I'm using a Mac. No. It doesn't matter. You just need internet. And so it works on any type of device. And posts can be commented and voted on and liked.

So as some of you responded, yes, it's not just for writing, not just text. You can use images. You can put in video, screen casting even, drawing even. So it's got all these new different things that are possible. So for the third icon that you see that has the magnifying glass with the web, so when you go there, what it will do is take you to this search box where you can search for images, videos, gifs, audio, and web links. So you don't necessarily even have to exit out of Padlet. You can do this within Padlet searching.

So there is in the text area, title. So if I want students to provide their names, I usually tell them to put their name in the title. And then they enter in text. The upload, the up arrow, excuse me, is for uploading. The hyperlink, so linking to anything that's online with a URL, the search, the camera. That allows you to upload or use your webcam, if you give access, so for a device that has a built-in camera.

And then you see the three dots that go to all these other possibilities. This is a bit newer for Padlet. So it's got everything here, searching in Google, taking a picture with your camera, capturing video from your camera, recording audio from your microphone. So there's that question about, can students reply by audio? Yes. It's even got screen casting now.

So a lot of times we use Loom is my favorite to do a quick tutorial of what's on my screen. But you can do this now inside of Padlet. Isn't that amazing? Drawing, adding a location, linking to other Padlets, that's with those three dots are when you are posting. Wow. Lots of possibilities here, huh? So I think whoever is in charge of Padlet, they are working for us teachers. Aren't they?

Other benefits are privacy and moderation. You can set a Padlet just for students to read and no commenting. You can set it for can write. So they can post and write. And you can even set it as that they can edit. So they've posted something and then they change their mind and want to change that post. They can come in and do that if you set the moderation and privacy as that.

Walls can be set to allow others to delete and edit their posts and set their own background colors. This one's a little bit newer. So I'll show you an example of that shortly. So you can see the different privacy options in that first screenshot there.

So private, it's hidden from everyone. But even if the link is shared, then they won't be able to access. Have a password, so it's hidden from the public. But when you share it with your students, they'll have to enter a password to enter. Secret, so if you share it, only the people with the link can have it.

I usually leave mine at public. I've never had anyone find my link and put something there. I've never had that happen. So yeah, that's basically what that is. That's the setting that I use for privacy setting.

So again, you can see the can read, can write, can edit. And then on the far right screenshot, you see how students can, when they go to post, they go to the three dots. And they can choose the color of their posting, the background color.

So if you can edit, can the students change what the teacher posts? Let's check it out. I think so, but let's check it out. That's a good question, Beverly. So yeah, if you don't want them to-- I've never had any problem with students doing this. But we'll check it in just a bit.

So what are some other benefits? Someone entered in the chat that it's somewhat synchronous. So the posts as they're coming on are live. You can see students entering it. So that's a great thing that you don't have to wait or anything to see the posts.

Let's say that you have a Padlet wall that you've set up and you want to use it again but with a new class. You can remake it and just delete the previous posts. You can create a unique URL for each of your Padlet walls.

And there are multiple ways you can share. You can share the URL. You can embed on an LMS like Moodle or Canvas or Blackboard. You can share a QR code. And you can take your walls and export them is different file types. So as you can see, you can export your Padlet wall as an image, a PDF file, and so on, or print it out. Of course, the multimedia part will not be there as an image or a PDF.

But OK, are there any negatives? If you are using or have used Padlet, in the chat, can you type any negatives you have experienced with Padlet?

Melinda Holt: This would be for the people who actually use it, right?

Kristi Reyes: Yeah, if you use or have used. Crickets.

Melinda Holt: Students can change a teacher's Padlet. So be careful.

Kristi Reyes: Oh, OK.

Melinda Holt: When sharing QR code, it takes up the whole screen. Not really motivated. Seem other ways are less work. It's been a little hard to learn the first and second time for low level students, ESL. Someone sent me a Padlet wall, and it seemed confusing to me as a non-user.

Kristi Reyes: So yeah. It would be good to be able to demo how to post to your students. I've taught lots of different levels. I've not really had students have troubles posting or understanding what to do. But I was able to either in person demo, or you could create a short screencast to show them how.

OK, so the main benefit, well, sorry. We went over the benefits. The one negative is that if you want more than three Padlets and you're just using Padlet, you didn't start using it a long time ago, you'll need to pay for unlimited Padlets. You get three for free.

So that's why the remaking is good. So you know, I don't want to use this Padlet anymore. I can delete it, or I can remake it and delete the other, whatever. It's not expensive. It's $8 a month. But I'm really cheap. I never like to pay for anything.

So I just if I had those three, I would just delete after the class is done and make a new one or remake it and delete the original, something like that. So you get three Padlets for free. With this $8 a month, you get a lot of other things. But honestly, I would just go for the free version.

So I want to show you some examples. As I said in the beginning, this is not just-- these aren't all my work at all. Some of them, I was just browsing around in their gallery and trying to find a lot of different examples to help you open your mind to the possibilities. So for your agency, I know we have counselors. And they've created something that's really hard for our students to find, but this could be certain Q&A or frequently asked questions that you could post, send to your teachers. The teachers could share that one URL with all their students. And they could get that information that way.

You could have students, or you as a teacher could create a class blog. And that's with the type of wall that's a stream, just going straight down. You could have students-- you or you could have your students as well, but you could create a home page. So you could give some information about your class, about me.

If you have a lot of meetings, there is a template for agendas. You could keep your meeting minutes. You could even create a resume on a Padlet. So that's how teachers and programs could use it.

I've been seeing it used a lot in conferences. So this first screenshot you see there, that was in 2016 when I did a presentation on formative assessment for CATESOL. So they did the Padlet in the workshop. So asking that question, how many of you have used this tool? Or what do you use for formative assessment?

And I could see what they use already live right there without having everybody speak in the conference. Just I went there to that one page, and I see, oh, OK. They already know Socrative or Kahoot. I'm going to spend as much time on that.

Some of our OTAN subject matter experts have done some webinars recently. I did one a couple of weeks ago. And what I did was I-- let me see if it's going to go to the link. There we go. I had the participants just like you post to this wall. So you can see you can have lots and lots of posts. And they were commenting on each other's posts. And I didn't ask them to put their names because we're just gathering information. So that's an example of how you might use a Padlet in any sort of professional development.

And then Stephanie Thomas from San Diego Community College District, she did this really great presentation. You can see a screenshot of her webinar right there. She used Padlet and Zoom. And so she went. This was her presentation.

So after this, you will get a copy of this slide show that I'm giving you. And you'll be able to look at what she has created. This is also posted on the OTAN website under the COVID resources. So you can see she used what is known as the shelf, different headings on each type. So she presented a lot of excellent resources for moving your course online.

Sometimes-- actually, I want to show this one because I wish I could attend a conference like this. Evidently, this was some sort of doughnut, pastry conference. Anyway, so conferences, PD, having people introduce themselves, you could use that. And then there is a sample that I won't show now, but you could have yourself or you could have students create a digital business card as well.

OK, so now we're going to go into the class activities. So how many of you are using Zoom or some sort of video conferencing to present to your class, to run your classes? Let's see.

Melinda Holt: Yes, Zoom. Me. Yes. Google Meet. Yep.

Kristi Reyes: OK.

Melinda Holt: Google Meet. Using Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. Zoom. Screencast. Yes. Yes. Yes. Hi, CeeCee. Yes, Zoom. Yes.

Kristi Reyes: Cool. So what I'm noticing, not as much, but the same sort of thing that happens in my on-ground, face-to-face classes, happens online where students don't necessarily get there on time. So what I've been doing is having some sort of image or question that the early comers can respond to instead of just sitting there waiting for everybody else to get there because I want to start my lesson at the same time.

You could do a check-in like this where you create a Padlet and then you share in the chat, and you ask them to go there. And you know, they could say-- it says, which one shows your current mood, and why? Add a comment by typing your name and an explanation under the picture.

So if this one is how he's feeling today or your student, they can add a comment. Or this one, so different gifs. These are all from Giphy, by the way. And it could be a way to just open up your class until your majority of your students are there. OK? So that's something that could be fun for your students too.

You can have your class assignments posted and homework resources. So one of my colleagues in my program, Ryan, who is the creator of ESL video, he is teaching two multilevel classes. Bless his heart. And so he shared with me and said that he did not mind if I share with you that he has created a wall that is one of those shelves.

And so he has a date and homework. And he's having students watch videos and practice their English with friends, episodes. And so it goes kind of chronologically horizontally in that way. So you could offer your course on Padlet. If you wanted to do that, it's a possibility.

So as I mentioned, when you come back to this slide show, you can look at all of the hyperlinks. I'm just going to focus on one or two per slide. So I typically used Padlet just for icebreakers and introductions. And so this was a great way for me to get to know students, get a little bit of diagnostic about their writing.

But then they could look at it. And since we, in that time, we were in a computer lab. But now if you're online, they can be seeing what everyone else is posting and get acquainted with each other. So people put in videos. People put in images. So it turned out really well. It was a great way to have students introduce each other.

What I do usually do then is then if we're in the classroom, I open this up and have students present themselves. And you could if you're using Zoom or Google Hangouts or whatever. You could also do that. Have students unmute themselves and tell you what they have here for their introduction. So the prompt is there. You can see when you visit the slide show.

You could have students create an about me Padlet. And so that would be them creating their own Padlet and making it so that it's that no one can really write on it just do it and so they could if you have more time and you have more advanced students, they could create an about me like this with some direction about who they are, what their goals are. You can see on this one where they live, pets, favorite music or something, what they like to read, favorite food. So that would be really fun too.

So let me see. I see a a couple questions in the question, answer. If you purchase, once you make new ones, you would lose them if canceled. I'm not sure about that. I'm sorry. I'm not really sure. Purchase once, make new ones.

Melinda Holt: So Kristi, if got--

Kristi Reyes: Oh, got it.

Melinda Holt: --the premium version and then you make 20 Padlets, would you lose them if you canceled them?

Kristi Reyes: I don't have a definitive answer, but I would say no. I would imagine no because I have all these Padlets from long time ago. And they didn't disappear. So I think once you've created it, it will still be there.

Is Giphy free? Yes, it is. Yes. And so has lots of great gifts that you can put into a slideshow, or students could even go there and find something to put in Padlet. "How can I get rid of the plus signs that are there to add content once I've completed my Padlet?" Melinda, do you get? I'm not sure I got the question. I'm sorry. It's probably me. I'm a little bit slow today.

Melinda Holt: OK. Once you post to Padlet, if you don't want students to interact with the Padlet--

Kristi Reyes: OK, yeah. So if you want students just to visit and read and view something there, within the sharing options, you will select only can view. And then if you've had them post and you don't want any more posts, you can change the privacy or editing, moderating capabilities at that point. Yes, you could.

So you set up separate Padlets for the about me activity. So this would be students making their own Padlet for this case. But you could have one Padlet where all students come together and do an about me. I would probably do it that case in the shelf, so you would maybe go in and put their name. And then they are posting only under that area. So you could have a class about me too, yes.

Let me see. Any other questions? OK, all right. All right, so let's look at some of the other examples. Lots of things you could do for class activities. If you have students make a presentation about a place or just about any presentation, they could use Padlet.

So I've linked here, but I won't go there. Someone made a presentation about the seven wonders of the world. I don't know if it was the ancient one or it's our current wonders of the world, I believe. I love this that there's a map now. There's so many cool things you could do with a map.

So I put this into my Canvas course. And I asked students to go there and put a pin where they're from originally. These are ESL students. And I think they're a couple I want to show you because then they could put in pictures and more. Was it this one? It's this one. No. It's this one.

So this student is from Russia. She lived in a couple different places, I believe. And she put in a picture of the northern lights. And then I'll go over here. I think it was-- well, I'll go back to Mexico over here. I think it was this one. This one?

So this person is from Nayarit, Mexico. He put in a beautiful picture. And then this one, my student from Mexico City, this is actually a picture of her. This must have been downtown or something. I don't know. But you see this beautiful display. So they could put in pictures and videos on the pins located where they're from. So lots of yeah, it's really easy.

So it's a little bit different. This one is not made to be able to be edited. But in the bottom right, there is that little pin marker. And they can drag it, or they type in the city. And it will go to that place because I probably would not be accurate myself at putting a pin where I'm from necessarily. So it will go to those coordinates actually. So yes, I think it's probably integrated a bit with Google Maps or something. I'm not sure. So a lot of different things you could do with that.

As I mentioned at the beginning, you could have students set goals. So this is just a simple one that is from the gallery that I found. This person made short term goals and long term goals. And we know when we have students set goals for our class, that is something that is very effective. Because then, first of all, you know what their needs are. And then you can meet their needs and point out to them. The reason why I'm teaching this is because you have the goal of this. And you need this to be able to reach your goal.

For vocabulary, you could assign students all of the same vocabulary word. Or you could assign students different vocabulary words, probably taken from a reading. And they could put the definition of the vocabulary word. They could write out perhaps the different synonyms, maybe an antonym or two, an original sentence, maybe a sentence that the vocabulary word actually came from, whatever text that was.

And then this is like your class dictionary. So everybody can go there and see, oh, you defined it with this picture. I use more of a picture like this. So it's kind of like what you may have in your classroom, a vocabulary wall or bulletin board. And so this would just be the multimedia version of that.

OK, so I did some searching within the gallery. And I see some other ways that teachers are doing this. So this looks like a high school biology class you see here. And that teacher put all kinds of different resources for each unit in the textbook. So students who go there see some supplementary information. She has their notes. And she has video and all kinds of great things about the parts of the body, I guess it is.

And then I want to show one in a moment. But this one was the class was reading about the biography of Malala. And so she had discussion questions. So the teacher who made this, she made it so that they cannot actually interact. It was only can you, not can edit or post. But it was like where she was putting discussion questions before each chapter. And so students could focus their reading. So that's something you could do.

I'll show you this one as well. So curation means the way of taking all different resources that you have, that you someday want to use with your students. So this one, the teacher put all kinds of resources about global warming. So maybe she's going to have the students do some writing. She'll have students do a presentation. And there are lots of resources here that she wants them to visit actually rather than just send them into the world wide web on their own. So you can curate resources, gather up your resources as digital bookmarks.

Let me see a couple quick. Yes. So review archive. Oh, archiving Padlets. Thanks, Marisol. Marisol, maybe if you know how to do that yourself, you can share with us. I'm not sure about archiving. Because when I log in, they're just all there. So I'm not sure I know how to do that.

Betty, do all of these activities require their own Padlet? Yes. So each of the activities I'm showing you are one Padlet wall. OK, when you go to the gallery, I'll give the link at the end. There is the general gallery. And then there's an educator's gallery as well.

OK. So let's go on. Remember that KWL? So this is probably from elementary school or something, the example you see there. What do we know about giraffes? And students-- either the teacher was recording probably in this case the different things the students responded. But then she could come back to it in a day or two after they have already done the reading about giraffes.

I really like this one. This seems to be something more at the high school level. Yeah, Marisol, you could link a flip board. Flip grid, I think is what you mean. Yeah. So here, this is a higher level human body systems. Looks like high school level.

So what I know, what with the lungs are for, and what skin is, and all that, and then what they want to know, and what they learned. So I believe that this person set up this wall as the shelf. So that gives it like overhead title. And then students came and posted here.

This is how I have used Padlet very recently, just a couple of weeks ago in my class where students-- we are reading about the obesity problem here in the United States and how fast food is not very healthy. And so their paragraph topic was about the question of whether fast food should have warning labels like cigarettes do and like cleaning materials do. And even alcohol has a warning label.

So I put them in groups. And then I shared the URL within Zoom in the chat. And they, together with their group, they were talking among themselves. I did breakout groups. And then they were talking, and they posted their answers.

So each group had two columns in the shelf layout. And they answered yes with different reasons. And I told them, even if you think, yes, they should, you need to think of the opposite side, play the devil's advocate and think of no as well. OK.

So Betsy says, where is the map? So I'll show you that in just a bit it's one of the wall types. So yes. OK. This is another example of how I used this Padlet wall as a unit opener, as pre-writing, pre-reading, pre-listening.

And so I have a unit that we do some reading about happiness around the world. We watch a documentary. And then eventually, students write a paragraph defining happiness in their own meaning. And then they make a presentation as well.

So before we did any of the reading, I just asked them to go to this wall and say, what are five things that make you happy? Double click anywhere. Begin writing. Type your first name. Type five complete sentences. You can add a picture or video as you'd like.

And then we read this all together. And they had lots of different ideas. And then this was pretty much the outline for their paragraph, right? So I just explained to them, well, you say that spending time with your family and friends is something that makes you happy. But you need to explain a little bit more about that.