
You can also search for and add content from YouTube, Spotify, and the Internet. Pictures and GIFs: Use the Padlet’s internal search service to search for images and GIFs you can add to your Padlets.Links: Add links by pasting their URLs.Location: Use Google Maps to easily add locations to your posts.
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Upload: Upload different types of files to your posts.You have different content options to add to your paddles: Now that your Padlet has been created, you can start adding posts to it. You can also choose to enable the File Profanity service to replace bad words with nice emojis. As a moderator, you can enable the Require Approval feature so that posts are manually approved by a moderator before they are submitted. Or select Not to disable comments for your posts.Ĭontent Filter is another key feature you need to set when creating your Padlets. There are four reaction types you can activate for your posts: Grade (give numerical marks to post), Star (give post 1-5 stars), Vote (vote up or down for post) and Like. Set your post preferences, which include: Attribution (choose whether or not you want the author name displayed above each post), Comments (when turned on, viewers can comment on posts), and Comments. You can also change the look of your Padlet by editing the color scheme, font, and wallpaper. There are seven templates to choose from:Ĭlick Select under the template you are interested in and follow the instructions to customize your Padlet. To create a Padlet, log in to your account and click ‘Create a Padlet’ and then select a Padlet template.
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For more ideas on how to use Paddle with your students, check out this post. You can even assign students to record videos of themselves explaining, presenting, or sharing resources and post those videos on your class paddle board so everyone can watch and interact with. The screen and video recording features of Padlet allow you to create educational screencasts and step-by-step tutorials to share with your students. You can also create paddle boards on a given research topic and get students to contribute by adding resources from the web. You can then collect the generated feedback and use it as a scaffold to develop differentiated and individualized learning / teaching strategies. You can send questions, polls, surveys, questionnaires and ask students to give their feedback. For example, you can use it as a formative assessment tool.

There are many different ways to use the Paddle in your teaching.
