Padlet and Linoit

With technology becoming much more accessible in today’s classroom, librarians and educators need to be aware of the ever changing ways to collaborate with the student body.  Two sites that I navigated this week were Padlet and Linoit.  Both sites are online collaboration bulletin boards for librarians, educators, and students can use to post comments, links, videos, images, and receive immediate feedback.  

Out of the two online bulletin boards, I was more comfortable with Padlet. I have used it before as a welcoming tool for the first day of school and open house.  I provided information about myself and classroom for students and parents to view upon arriving to my classroom.

I created a new Padlet about me for this coming school year. I included the class Twitter name, a link to this blog, as well as, an introductory Animoto about myself that I thought my students would enjoy.

Scan Me!

I also created a bookshelf Padlet where I posted each young adult novel that I though my students would like and were appropriate for them.  I have read some books that I absolutely loved, like Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover, but thought it was not appropriate content for my students.

Scan Me!

Because I have used this in the past, I plan on continuing to use it in my classroom and in the library.

Just like Padlet, I was able to post using sticky notes.  I was able to use different colors, change the fonts, and add emoji's, a few things I was not able to do with Padlet.  I found it a little bit more complicated to use, but I think high school and undergraduates would like it.

I had a hard time tring to share my canvas.  That frustrated me quite a bit. I like things to be simple to produce and use with my students.

Ways to use Padlet or Linoit

Librarians and educators can use this as an informal assessment tool to see who and what students have retained, comprehended, and use it as an exit ticket at the end of each class.  It can be used as continuous collaboration between the class and the librarian or teacher.  It can be use for all kinds of collaboration and informal assessments. 

Administration could also use Padlet for Professional Development.  For example, on Tuesday's, my district offers Twitter Tuesdays.  Every Tuesday at 10 a.m.  educators can participate in a live feed responding to five quesitons regarding a specific topic.  Either bulliten board could be used in the same concept.  It could be used in faculty meetings for educators to respond to when administration wants feedback in working in teams.  It could be the educators exit ticket out of a faculty meeting.

Whichever bulliten board librarians or educators use for their facutly and students is beneficial.  Quick feedback provides educators a chance to reassess and distribute instruction accordingly to their students and move forward. Again, as technology takes its place within the classroom, these types collaborations will create a community of students focused on the skill or content presented and will be morel likely to engage in the activity.

Which one?

Because of the confusions with Linoit, I felt liek I had better control of what I wanted to present through Padlet. It may also be that I have had experience with Padlet as well. I do know that I was more confident in using Padlet and will continue to use it.