Padlet

Padlet is a collaborative digital bulletin board that individuals at UVM have access to as part of the Microsoft suite. Anyone can create up to three boards, or “Padlets,” that can be shared with your class. (Padlet Pro for individuals allows unlimited Padlets for $8 per month.)

Teaching Ideas

Best used for groups or smaller classes, Padlet provides a visually interesting change of pace from typical collaborative document platforms. (See embedded Padlet below.)

  • Ice breaker activities
    • Ask students to post a favorite book or movie.
    • Set up the map Padlet and ask students to pin a place that they’d like to visit some day.
  • Use the timeline Padlet for organizing historical events, or use it to map out a process such as the stages in a life cycle by posting pictures to represent the stages along the timeline.
  • Have students post a question or “muddiest point” about the lecture or readings (an element that they found more difficult to understand) and use this to inform what you’ll review in the next class. (Read about Just in Time Teaching).
  • Exit Tickets – Some ideas for prompts from Brown University’s CTL:
    • Name one important thing you learned in class today.
    • Do you have any suggestions for how today’s class could have been improved?
    • Which of the readings you did for class today was most helpful in preparing you for the lesson? Why?
    • We did a concept map activity in class today. Was this a useful learning activity for you? Why or why not?
    • Write/ask one question about today’s content – something that has left you puzzled. (Muddiest point)

How to get started

» See instructions on how to set up an use Padlet on the UVM Knowledge Base.

Example of a Padlet

This embedded Padlet from the CTL’s account displays ideas for Classroom Assessment Techniques from the K. Patricia Cross Academy.

Made with Padlet