Padlet Streams - A Simple Way to Create a Group Blog. Padlet (formerly known as Wallwisher) is one of my favorite tools to use to have students quickly share ideas, questions, and multimedia notes on one page.
Until today all of the notes that were added to a Padlet page appeared wherever a visitor double clicked. You can still use that free form format, but now you can also use a chronological format that Padlet is calling "streams. " Streams places all notes into a chronological order based on the timestamp of when each note is written. Online Brainstorming and Planning. Add a sticky note and post it online with dot voting. 10 Ways To Spice Up Faculty Meetings. March 11, 2013 by Brad Currie Faculty meetings of late have been transformed from discussing bulleted agenda items to interactive and collaborative learning sessions.
Utilizing available technology and web 2.0 tools during faculty meetings have allowed educators to be lead learners and stay on the cutting edge of best practice initiatives. Here are ten ways faculty meetings can move from boring to relevant and engaging: 1. Incorporate backchannelling with TodaysMeet as a way to give people voice and share valuable ideas.
7 Steps To Flipped Professional Development. 7 Steps To Flipped Professional Development by Laura Conley first appeared on gettingsmart.com Arriving home from San Diego and having just attended the ISTE (International Society of Technology in Education) conference I was scheduled to facilitate an all-day professional development for our district.
I was excited to share as much of the conference as possible in a day without overwhelming everyone. I wanted to present the information in an engaging way by modeling the use of technology instead of just handing everyone a sheet of paper with some links. I knew where those papers would end up!