So what can you do with a Wakelet?

Alice Keeler shares several teacher ideas for Wakelet.  It has been the only curation site (and there have been many) that has worked for me.  It saves everything and is easy to use and share.  Sayreville University utilizes Wakelet for our professional development material and I use several for personal projects. If I’ve spoken to you about EduProtocols I probably shared my Wakelet resource (image above).

What you could do with a Padlet

 Dena Mazur (SUES 4th grade) mentioned she was using Padlet and kindly offered to share her ideas:

Every Wednesday, students practice their opinion writing and citing evidence using a "Would you rather" prompt. The students use Padlet to share their thoughts. They especially love adding drawings and images. 

Students are held accountable for their independent reading using Padlet. Each week, I post question choices for the students to respond to by citing evidence. This is a truer measure of "actual reading" than a log. 

While I loved Padlet (when it was free), you might find the 3 sites free version confining.  You might consider Wakelet- while it doesn’t have the exact layout of Padlet, it does have many of the same features. (As an aside, Wakelet does integrate with FlipGrid which is not approved in the district).

Wakelet

For the past few months, I’ve been exploring Wakelet - it is a curation tool that allows you to collect links, tweets, all sorts of things!  Please see this review in TeachersFirst this week.