Padlet: A Simple Way To Have Everyone Participate

Padlet is an online “bulletin board” that allows students to post their response to a topic in a manner that allows the whole class to participate.

Here's an overview:

  What is Padlet?

• An online bulletin board that allows everyone to post to it

How is it helpful?

• It allows all of your students to view the responses of their classmates

• It consolidates all of the responses to one place (easier grading)
• It allows for more creativity in the classroom

How can I use Padlet in the classroom?

• Group responses in the classroom
• As an “into” activity
• Elicit responses to primary text
• Use as homework
• Use as a “Bell-Ringer”
• Use as a “Ticket-out-the-door” activity

How does it work?

• Go to padlet.com and click on :

Put in your:

• Email address
• Password
• Click "sign up"

• Put in your name
• Click on "Save and continue"

You will see a homepage

• Click on "Create a New Padlet"

Create your online bulletin board

• Click on the red triangle
• Click on "Modify Wall"

You can:

• Click on "portrait" to personalize your page
• Title you Padlet (Perhaps the name of your class?)
• Describe your Padlet (Put your discussion question here)

You can also:

• Select your background (wallpaper)
• Click on "layout" and determine how your posts will appear

Your Padlet should look similar to this:

This is the address

Now the fun part, share the address with your students

• In this case, the address is :  padlet.com/nate_theune/ny3lsbaq5ceq

Easy input from the class!

• When the students go to the address, they double click on the wall and this appears:

• They enter their name and write a response
• Notice that they can also add a link, picture or video to the website.

Some examples and possible projects:

• Create a timeline:

• Create a map with descriptions:

• More ideas: