#Student padlet examples update

Most teachers utilize a K-W-L Chart for activating knowledge and in 2012 I wrote a blog post Beyond KWL Charts describing eight different strategies, I thought it was time for an update with some new strategies and tools that help “honor what students bring to the classroom and provides them with necessary context and connection to the purpose and payoff of what is to be learned. Using what students already know, helps teacher assist students with the learning process. Activating Prior Knowledge is important in students understanding, because it allows them and helps make connections to the new information. Understanding what your students already know is key to building initial knowledge that they need. Tagged Assessment, digital gallery, Google Slides, Graphic Organizers, Jamboard, Japanese Internment, lesson ideas, literacy, Padlet, Reading, Russian Revolution & Animal Farm, slidesmania For the Japanese Internment Digital Gallery students completed a “Who, What, Where, When, Why” graphic organizer or students can complete a “See Think Wonder Graphic Organizer.” Another ideas for evaluation is to create a Google Form for students to reflect and synthesize their viewing and understanding.

Create a graphic organizer where students will capture their responses as they circulate (this is optional, but it is an effective way to hold students accountable for their participation and critical thinking).Write out and post instructions for students on the digital gallery.To embed, simply click on insert and choose audio. Add an appropriate song, interviews, radio shows, audio speeches, videos. This is a gallery walk students learn through visuals, not blocks of text. You might also include audio segments your virtual gallery walk if you choose. Each image has a boarder or frame around them and are numbered to correlate with additional information. The images are placed similar to the experience of visiting a museum or gallery. For example, on the Japanese Internment Digital Gallery above each image is hyperlinked to specific web link to provide historical information about Japanese Internment during World War II. Hyperlink the images or text on the Digital Gallery.

SlidesMania has many great interactive templates that can be a starting off point for creating a Digital Gallery.

Customize the text, layout and display of the images or texts on the document so they are easily visible and accessible for students.

Once you have your ideas go hunting for pictures, political cartoons, short primary source documents for each topic.

Determine the viewing purpose and then select the images, student work, or texts that will be on display on the Digital Gallery.

I prefer to use Google Slides to create a customized art gallery look for backgrounds, frames, and layout.

Choose the platform for the digital gallery – Google Slides, Padlet, or Jamboard.

Japanese American Internment Digital Gallery You can ask students to share their impressions or what they learned in small group breakout rooms or with the whole class. Once students have finished viewing the sources, debrief the activity together. If using an interactive application, such as Google Jamboard or Padlet, you can also ask students to leave comments on the sources. Sometimes teachers ask students to identify similarities and differences among texts. Similarly, students can complete a graphic organizer as they view the digital gallery, or compile a list of questions for them to answer based on the texts on display. For example, with the Russian Revolution Digital Gallery for George Orwell’s Animal Farm, students took notes on an interactive foldable in their Reader’s Notebook. If the purpose of the virtual gallery is to introduce students to new material, taking notes as they view the sources is beneficial. Viewing instructions will depend on the goals for the activity. Teachers share the digital gallery with students during a synchronous session or ask them to look through the gallery asynchronously. In a blended learning environment, students can use their own devices to explore multiple texts in one curated space. This strategy requires students to physically move around the room and can can be especially engaging to kinesthetic learners. Teachers use this strategy for students to share their work with peers, examine multiple historical documents, or respond to a collection of quotations. The traditional gallery walk allows students to explore multiple texts or images that are placed around the room. Russian Revolution Digital Gallery for George Orwell’s Animal Farm