Many staff around the University of Sydney are using Padlet to effectively engage students. #DEFINE PADLET HOW TO#*see below on how to register for a full University of Sydney staff Padlet account How are people using Padlet? Padlet also allows you to save, store, and share the final “wall”, providing students the chance to reflect on their learning and academics with a snapshot of student thinking. Padlet can create opportunities to embed “whole class” engagement into a variety of teaching environments and fosters student-centred active learning based on discussion, collaboration, peer learning, and problem solving. text, images, links, documents, videos, and voice recordings), with different options for layout, access, and access permission. Most types of digital content can be added to a Padlet (e.g. Think of Padlet as “virtual wall”, an online equivalent to the trusty butchers paper, where users can post content and comments in real time. Padlet is a free*, easy to use online tool that allows learners to work and interact collaboratively online. This article was contributed by Danny Liu, Rebecca Goldsworthy, and Samantha Clarke. Never heard of Padlet? Now is your chance to learn a bit more about this online tool, the practicalities of use, possible limitations, and, most importantly, how Padlet can be harnessed to create engaging and collaborative learning opportunities for your students. In light of this exciting opportunity, we thought we’d take a closer look at Padlet and how it can be used in teaching and learning, along with the details of how to request a full Padlet account through the FEIT Backpack licence. FEIT have funded a ‘Padlet Backpack’ licence out of their faculty’s learning and teaching grant funding, and have kindly opened up the Backpack licence to the wider University via Educational Innovation. The Education Innovation team has recently been given the chance to offer University of Sydney staff an unlimited Padlet account until the end of 2019, thanks to colleagues in the Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT).
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