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🚀 Padlet ideas + spring break fun

🚀 Padlet ideas + spring break fun

And get info about bringing me to your school!

Matt Miller
March 06, 2024

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🚀 Padlet ideas you can use in class tomorrow

Padlet was founded in 2008. It was originally called Wallwisher.

Now, it’s an edtech app that lets teachers and students create digital walls full of text, images, multimedia, and more. It’s everywhere.

And now? There are updates galore — including Magic Padlet, which uses AI to help generate content.

We have teaching ideas and templates below!

Also … if you’re looking for a quick, fun pre-spring break activity to get students excited — and writing — check our our template of the week!

Inside:

🤖 Bring my AI workshop to your school or district
👀 DTT Digest: March, Gemini, Canva, student desks
💡 The Big Idea: 🚀 20 ways to use Padlet
🗄 Template: 🌴 My ideal spring break
😄 Smile of the day
👋 How we can help

🤖 Bring my AI workshop to your school or district

It’s March.

It’s the time that professional development leaders start planning workshops for the summer and back to school.

(Maybe that’s you?) (Maybe that’s someone you can forward this email to?)

I’ve been leading my AI workshops with teachers for more than a year now. (In fact, I’m at the NCTIES Conference in North Carolina right now leading a pre-conference AI workshop.)

They’re hands-on and practical.
They prompt discussion and conversation.
They help educators see a path forward with AI in education.

Teachers report that they don’t have enough professional development about AI to really get started with it.

I’d like to help change that!

Want some details? Email [email protected] for information, availability and a quote.

👀 DTT Digest

4 teaching resources worth checking out today

☘️ Let’s celebrate March! — View our Wakelet collection of classroom activities for St. Patrick’s Day, Pi Day, March Madness, Spring/Easter, Women’s History month, and more.
📅 Plan your day, week, month, or year with AI — Google’s Gemini on Android can now access your Google Calendar events, as well as create new ones via voice command.
🖍Create custom coloring pages with Canva Magic Media — Go to Magic Media on Canva. Try this prompt from Brian Buffington on Twitter/X “Create a black and white coloring page with extremely thick lines. Of a grizzly bear, roller skating in a convenience store.”
🪑Number your chairs for easy sorting. — Put numbers on the back of your students’ chairs. That number can be used for all sorts of things like finding their own slide in a collaborative slides presentation or spreadsheet!

💡 THE BIG IDEA 💡

🚀 Take your Padlet game to a whole new level

🤔 What is Padlet?

Padlet is a web app that allows users to create a digital bulletin board by posting notes, images, links, and videos. It's a collaborative tool that can be used by individuals or groups to share and organize information.

💡 Learn more: What is Padlet?

🆕 New Padlet Updates

Padlet has been around for a while and many of us have used it in class for years. However, Padlet has recently released several new features that really take this tool to a whole new level.

Magic Padlet: An AI-powered tool that helps you generate content for your Padlet, such as lesson plans, timelines, and learning resources.
Template Gallery: A collection of over 250 templates designed for various classroom activities, making it easier to create Padlets without starting from scratch. Each template also includes an example Padlet so that you can see what it might look like in class to spark even more ideas!
Freeze Padlets: A feature that allows you to lock a Padlet, making it a permanent record of your work. This is useful for capturing brainstorming sessions, collaborative projects, or completed assignments.
Translated Templates: All Padlet templates are now translated into all 42 languages supported by the platform.

💡 Learn more: The 2024 winter release on the Padlet Gazette

👩🏾‍🏫 How can I use Padlet in class?

Here are a few ideas from our newly updated post 20 useful ways to use Padlet in class now.

Like an idea? Click on the link to be taken directly to that activity which includes a template you can use to try it right away.

Bell ringer activities: Ask students what they remember from the previous day's lesson.
Collaborative notetaking: Students work together to take notes on a presentation.
Exit tickets: Have students answer questions about what they learned at the end of a lesson.
Class document hub: Upload important class files to a Padlet for students to access.
Field trip/Virtual field trip documentation: Add photos and updates from a field trip to a Padlet.
Poster presentations: Create digital posters using Padlet.
Research resource gathering: Students use Padlet to collect and share research materials.
Collect videos to share in class: Create a playlist of videos to share with your students.
Sub lesson plans: Create lesson plans for a substitute teacher using Padlet.
Interactive storytelling: Collaborate with students to write a story together.