Wallwisher was a site where students and teachers could
brain storm and move the text box of ideas around into categories or
chronological order. Many teachers also wanted to do more. Apparently Wallwisher has listened to comments
and their vision for a “tablet” like site has evolved. Wallwisher is now
Padlet.
There are a variety of ways to use this in your classroom
beyond an in class brainstorming activity. They have included a streams, which
places the postings/notes in chronological order with a timestamp. This allows
teachers to easily use this as an extension activity beyond the classroom.
Padlet can easily be used as a notice board, brainstorm, make lists of activity/unit/class
resources, watch and share videos, and more. I really like the idea of it
becoming a different discussion board.
One way that I have used in the classroom is to brainstorm
ideas on a topic. I had a student type in the responses students shared and I
have also had students post their responses from their smart phones or in the
computer lab. As a class, we then discuss ways of categorizing them, you could
also categorize them based on SPEC (social, political, economic, cultural)
categories. This can be done as an end of unit review, DBQ outside info review,
or CST review prep.
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