Padlet is a virtual bulletin board to share ideas, post comments, links, media, and more. It's not dedicated to the educational world but has a very practical application. My students go into class and they go to their Padlet bulletin board. Here they see the Learning Objective, the warm-up, the assignment(s), the activity we need to accomplish, and any other pertinent information needed for the classroom for that day (or any other day.) Students post to the bulletin board and share information. Now, this is not a perfect program partly because I have imperfect (and sometimes) obnoxious students. Students can post anything on the bulletin board. So, this being case, students have had to be trained to give posts a title (which is their first and last name) and the body of the post is whatever task I've required of them to post.
So this being the case, there was a learning curve for the students because some are less mature than others and would have a tendency to post a variety of things on the bulletin board. Most comments, however, were benign. The advantage here is that it is my board and I can and sometimes do go through and erase their posts.
So, the practical application is that we use this in place of any whiteboard in the classroom and anything I would write gets placed on the Padlet board. Students and parents can access the bulletin board from home and see what they missed for the day or what we learned for the day. I definitely recommend Padlet but understand that students who have issues being mature or those that simply don't have filters may post to their hearts desire and cause a disruption in the classroom.
So this being the case, there was a learning curve for the students because some are less mature than others and would have a tendency to post a variety of things on the bulletin board. Most comments, however, were benign. The advantage here is that it is my board and I can and sometimes do go through and erase their posts.
So, the practical application is that we use this in place of any whiteboard in the classroom and anything I would write gets placed on the Padlet board. Students and parents can access the bulletin board from home and see what they missed for the day or what we learned for the day. I definitely recommend Padlet but understand that students who have issues being mature or those that simply don't have filters may post to their hearts desire and cause a disruption in the classroom.