Using Padlet in the Classroom
Welcome back, friends! Today's post deals with using Padlet and also discussing Creative Commons.
Below is a link to a Padlet I've created that can be used to either introduce or review animal adaptations. If used as an introduction, share the link with your students however you're able to. Students can work alone or with a partner to click through the different links, videos, and then try to answer some of the questions that go with each photo. Students would be allowed 10-15 minutes to explore and learn about the different types of adaptations. After their free explore, a whole class review could be done or students could share their findings.
A learning objective for this lesson might be: Students will explore the different links in the Padlet to learn about different physical and behavioral adaptations.
When using Padlet, students are presented with an engaging outline of information. Maybe not in all cases but here they have more choice as to which videos they look at or which questions to answer first. Padlet allows the instructor to create engaging content with the use of adding videos, links, photos, or other documents.
While utilizing Padlet in this lesson, you could review the importance of acknowledging the ownership of content. Students must give credit to those who've created the digital content they use in a presentation. Within Padlet, you might give permission to your students to post. We could ask our students to find a photo on Flickr and write 1-2 sentences about their adaptations. They would also need to provide the correct Creative Commons license.
When I created this lesson I considered the different principles and ideas of learning with multimedia. One principle in particular that I used was the Pre-training Principle which states that students will learn more if key vocabulary is introduced before the multimedia. I tried to do this with my first two posts the Padlet. I also looked for videos that had only graphics and narration and left out visible text.
The biggest take away from this week was learning the importance of giving credit and knowing that students and teachers can just use whatever content they find. Living in such a vast digital world, it's extremely easy to just add or modify any photo or video to or within a presentation. We must teach our students the morally and lawfully correct way to give credit, use, and modify digital content.
When creating the Padlet, it took a little longer than I thought it would because of the multistep process to make sure I was using the appropriate licensed material. Before, I would have found videos and photos very easily through Google or Youtube without looking at the Creative Commons licenses.
Padlet seems to be a very useful tool that has multiple purposes in a digital classroom. I love the idea of using it for parent communication as well. I'm hoping to add to our Digital Citizenship lessons next year more emphasis on using or modifying certain content on the internet.
Below is a link to a Padlet I've created that can be used to either introduce or review animal adaptations. If used as an introduction, share the link with your students however you're able to. Students can work alone or with a partner to click through the different links, videos, and then try to answer some of the questions that go with each photo. Students would be allowed 10-15 minutes to explore and learn about the different types of adaptations. After their free explore, a whole class review could be done or students could share their findings.
A learning objective for this lesson might be: Students will explore the different links in the Padlet to learn about different physical and behavioral adaptations.
When using Padlet, students are presented with an engaging outline of information. Maybe not in all cases but here they have more choice as to which videos they look at or which questions to answer first. Padlet allows the instructor to create engaging content with the use of adding videos, links, photos, or other documents.
While utilizing Padlet in this lesson, you could review the importance of acknowledging the ownership of content. Students must give credit to those who've created the digital content they use in a presentation. Within Padlet, you might give permission to your students to post. We could ask our students to find a photo on Flickr and write 1-2 sentences about their adaptations. They would also need to provide the correct Creative Commons license.
When I created this lesson I considered the different principles and ideas of learning with multimedia. One principle in particular that I used was the Pre-training Principle which states that students will learn more if key vocabulary is introduced before the multimedia. I tried to do this with my first two posts the Padlet. I also looked for videos that had only graphics and narration and left out visible text.
The biggest take away from this week was learning the importance of giving credit and knowing that students and teachers can just use whatever content they find. Living in such a vast digital world, it's extremely easy to just add or modify any photo or video to or within a presentation. We must teach our students the morally and lawfully correct way to give credit, use, and modify digital content.
When creating the Padlet, it took a little longer than I thought it would because of the multistep process to make sure I was using the appropriate licensed material. Before, I would have found videos and photos very easily through Google or Youtube without looking at the Creative Commons licenses.
Padlet seems to be a very useful tool that has multiple purposes in a digital classroom. I love the idea of using it for parent communication as well. I'm hoping to add to our Digital Citizenship lessons next year more emphasis on using or modifying certain content on the internet.
I agree that it's so important for us to be teaching our students about copyright laws. I honestly feel that they just don't know enough. I myself did not know enough before this week and there is clearly so much more to know. I think for many of the kids we teach it would be very eye opening for them.
ReplyDeleteI found that it did take some time creating my padlet as well, and I found that finding QUALITY resources with the appropriate copyright license was the most challenging.
With the popularity of social media and the use of technology in general, students are very tech savvy but they do not get enough practice and instruction on copyright. Your padlet is excellent and the layout is very student friendly. I had a similar issue as you with struggling to find material that was available to use based on the creative commons.
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