For those who have not heard of Padlet, it is a simple way to engage student responses through text, images, and video. Post a link to a Padlet wall and your students can post whatever you prompt them to share. Have you been using Padlet with your students?
Padlet has changed their offering. What was previously a free account for teachers, now to build additional walls to use with their learners you will have to pay either $12 a month or $99 a year or a whopping $1499 for a school-wide account.
If you are new to Padlet, there is still a free version but you only get three 'walls'. You will have to delete walls in order to work within your 3 wall limit. If you’ve been using it a while then you get your current total + 3. For example, if you currently have 80 padlet walls – now you will have an 83 limit. You can delete a wall and create a new one and still have a total of 83 walls.
I have been reusing old Padlets by deleting all posts, changing the prompt, and background design. Some Padlets I want to keep for the whole school year to go back to when teaching lessons, but many can be reused. This avoids having to sign up for the paid version.
Looking for an alternative to Padlet? My favorite is Lino, but check out these recommendations
Contact me for more information or for clever ways to use these powerful web tools in your classroom.
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