 Okay. Hi everybody. Welcome. So glad to see you. At least see your name and see a lot of familiar names and some folks even from my own school. Thanks for coming out and joining me. Hope you can see my screen okay. It says it's loading for some reason. Because the internet is slow. The internet got a little slow. We have a bit speed up. Yeah. This is intended to be a bit interactive. So as Melinda said, I'm going to be asking you to share some things in the chat. In a moment, wow, still loading. Christy, try stop share. Okay. And then load your slide stack up. Okay. And then share. Alrighty. Okay. See folks, we have tech problems too. It's not just you. I'm going to pause the recording just for a sec. Okay. Now start. Okay. Here we go. Try it one more time. Well, it doesn't want to show the first slide, but we'll just get that. My name is Christy Reyes. Thank you for joining me today. I am an ESL teacher located here in North San Diego County. And really glad to see you all here today. Wish we could see each other face to face. Usually I do these sorts of workshops in a face to face sitting with hands out hands on in a computer lab. So this will be a lot of me talking but I do want to make it interactive. So already right now, if you could type in the chat and remember Q&A is for questions. Chat is where we can communicate with each other. Type in what you teach and answer this question. Type yes or no in the chat. Are you familiar with padlets? Go ahead and type yes or no. And what you teach. Okay. We have ESL, math, GED. I'm seeing yeses familiar but haven't used yet. No ESL, no not familiar IT, EHL and computers. I'm thinking there's more nos than yeses. Really? Wow. Okay. So it's been around for a long time. So that's always a positive. Sometimes websites come and they gain a lot of popularity and then they disappear or they gain a lot of popularity for us teachers and then they make us pay. So there is a part of Pallet that is still free and like you I've been using it. I think the first time I used it was more than 10 years ago. So I was kind of grandfathered in to this new like the old way where it didn't have to pay anything and I can have multiple pallets but I going online fully online I have rediscovered different possibilities with Pallet that I never had imagined before. So I would like to share that. I've tried to get examples from all different discipline areas not just ESL. So I'm sure that everyone's going to walk away with this with one idea that you can use for integrating Pallet into your instruction. So what is Pallet? For any of you who are familiar with it, if you have been using it, provide an example in the chat or explain in your own words what is Pallet? Online bulletin board. Okay there we go. Yes anybody else? Bulletin board. Okay. Bulletin board we can all post to. Yes, yes great. So the only thing I maybe add to that definition of Pallet is multimedia because you can post in multiple ways include different many different things. So yeah it's just like the bulletin board you might have in your classroom where you're posting students work and information and so on. So yes it's a multimedia bulletin board where students can add text images video audio hyperlinks and files and a whole bunch of different things. So it has grown the possibilities with Pallet in the past few years have expanded. So I'm going to go over some different uses and then show you some specifics and towards the end we'll have you see a short demo and then have you post to a Pallet. So it could be something like an interactive syllabus if you provide syllabi to your students it could be something that you share with them and you know showing different things on a calendar could be different files that you want students to do assignments it could be something like that it could actually even going further than just a syllabus it could become a learning management system for you. Learning management system is where you have everything for your course in one place and usually students have to log in right for this they wouldn't have to log in. So you could have weekly activities all in one place all assignments you could link to quizzes and everything so it could be like a Moodle a Canvas a Blackboard. It's just a little more simplified but that would be a possibility. So teachers could use it to post class information announcements assignments agendas homework supplementary practice on different websites course materials as I said it could be your LMS linking even to other Pallets. A lot of teachers like to use it for bookmarking in other words curating all the different websites that they found and different materials they found online. So you know going back to it you wouldn't have to search through your bookmarks in your web browser but you could go to that one pallet and find everything you were looking for. As I will show you some teachers who are providing professional development use pallet as the medium for delivering the content and if you are you know within your department your program area you could be sharing either among the faculty and the staff or even with all of your students school information resources updates and so on. If you are ever absent from a class and you needed a substitute you could put your lesson plan on pallet. So those are some ways that teachers could use it. As far as integrating pallet into your classroom activities typically how I've used pallet in the past is as a place where students could introduce themselves during the first week or ice breakers. But as I returned to pallet with this remote instruction wow there are so many different possibilities. You could have students document their learning goals for the class educational or career goals. We know that goal setting becomes more of a realistic type of activity when people write down their goals and share with others. So goal setting in Adult Ed is a best practice so this could be a resource for that. You could have students do writing based on the vocabulary you have taught them or the grammar you have been teaching them if you're teaching English or ESL. A lot of times we do activities in a classroom where we have a picture or a prompt that we use as pre-reading to activate students' schemata about the content we're going to teach. Find out what they already know kind of introduce the topic. If you're using a video it could be a previewing activity that you post onto pallet and have students respond to or to open up a new unit or area of study in your class. Any sort of that information that you're trying to draw from them to see what they already know about the topic. Brainstorming. So brainstorming in a group this is actually some activity that I have been doing with my online course that I'm teaching now is I was thinking how could I possibly within Zoom have students brainstorm in groups. So I'll show you how I did that and it's a it's a great tool for that because again everybody from the classes in one space. Listing pros and cons any sort of pre-writing activities that you do word webs or mind maps and things could be done on pallet. If you teach history this one of the new types of walls on pallet are timelines so you could have students present biographies, autobiographies or history of a certain era. You could use pallet for scavenger hunts and web quests. I don't know if you've ever heard of a web quest. If you know what a web quest is can you type yes or no in the chat. If you know what a web quest is do you know type yes or no. Let's say about 70% no well no 80% no 20% yes. So look it up after this it was a professor at San Diego State University I think quite a few years back he came up with this type of learning activity where you have students do some you have links to different things you want them to read or watch online and they're going through these steps and ending up with an end product usually. So I don't think I have an example of a web quest necessarily here but I do have an example of a scavenger hunt so it's got that similar idea where students are visiting different places online and then coming up with some sort of response whether that's an essay or a video or whatever. You could have students submit assignments on pallet so they could work on some assignment maybe on Google Docs or Google Slides and they could submit the URL so that could be a repository of different assignments that you are giving in your class. If you're in the sciences for example if you teach in those areas you could explain processes or how to's or have students do that as well so you could if you ever include some sort of project where students are explaining how to do something that they know how to do pallet is a great place to do that with the timeline. You could have debates sessions for corners is how I've recently used pallet so I'll explain about that if you're not familiar with that activity coming up. You could have students post their favorite apps websites, videos or other online resources for learning in your subject area. Jigsaw reading I don't know if you're familiar with that activity. What you can do with jigsaw reading is you have perhaps a longer reading and you divide your students up into groups and then a certain group is responsible for a certain section of the reading and then they go and they explain that section of the reading to their classmates. So yes I see a couple of questions in the chat. Can students submit work that is written on paper? Well probably how you would have them do that best is to take a photo if they've written on paper and they could with their phone they could go to your pallet wall and add that photo of what they've written that would be a possibility. Yes so yeah that would be better than having everybody text you their work if they're doing paper-based work because I've tried that before with a video project and it was chaos. I had different videos coming at me from all kinds of different ways so the benefit would be the pallet is one place where you would find everything. Yes and Karen asks in a jigsaw activity is there a way that the students do not see the other parts of their reading? I imagine there is either by emailing specific groups or you could have two or three depending on how many different groups you use for the jigsaw activity. You could have different pallets for each group to see and then what you could do is then one pallet where they come together and teach the other groups. Yes can you post audio on pallet? Yes you can so an audio response to a prompt like if for example that you I don't know if anyone here teaches citizenship you could put some of those 100 questions either in an audio file so only listening or in a text and they could answer by recording their answers audio files. Yes okay so let's look at a couple of other things that you can do for class activities. Do you know what this word means back channel? Type yes or no in the chat. No no no no no no no no no no. Okay so I'm not sure where this term came up with where it's from but I remember almost 10 years ago I think it was where I attended a TESOL international convention and a lot of younger teachers really were demonstrating a lot of great tech use and one of them is back channel so someone would be presenting but they said hey this is the this is where you can with this hashtag on Twitter you can be asking questions to each other or responding while I'm giving this presentation so similar with your students while you're presenting something you could have them have this padlet open and they could be responding or asking questions instead of interrupting you then you can look at the back channel after you have finished presenting the information. You can have surveys voting class feedback so it could be perhaps linking to a survey that you create on Google Forms but the voting is right within padlet they don't need to go anywhere else so I'll show you that in a moment. Students could ask and answer questions submit homework as I said group projects this is a great place to do group projects because students can all come together on one padlet. As I said time lines biography history graphic organizers the Venn diagram KWL does anybody know what KWL is go ahead and type that in the chat. One yes couple no another yes and then no no no yes yes no no no yes okay so about half okay so KWL is a technique that you use pre-reading um or you know pre any sort of unit that you're going to start our subject topic that you're going to start teaching. You have students write what they know already about the topic what they want to learn and after they have been taught or read or seen a video or whatever the activity is what they learned so it's it's a great way for students to start thinking about what they already know for you to see what they already know yes so it says a couple questions can the teacher correct a student's upload home uploaded homework on the padlet you yeah there there would be a couple ways you could do that you could respond in text so if you create a palette and allow commenting on posts then you could comment that way and then can we add a palette to canvas and I think there was a previous question palette does not currently have integration with canvas some different sites like flip grid and quizlet do have integration but padlet not yet that I know of so what I would do in canvas um what I have done is I just create a page or create an assignment and I put the link so it will take them out of canvas but then their time is still tracked within canvas so even though they're having to leave as long as they started in canvas and then come back to it we're pretty good with that so yes thank you for those questions um it's kind of diagramming or pre-reading or idea generating can be done on padlet class publications maybe as you come towards the end of the term you could collect one best work of each student and it could be there kind of like showcase of their work book reports reviews summaries entry and exit tickets so an entry ticket would be um if if uh yesterday I taught something sort of new and we practice a little bit and when students come back to class on Monday as they come in I could have the qr code for the palette okay well they're not coming into the classroom but I could have that posted somewhere emailed to them or texted to them and they can go to that link and answer a question so that I can see if they remember what I taught them yesterday right an exit ticket is a similar idea formative um assessment to see if students were able to grasp and retain the information that you taught them e portfolios so um portfolio you know is the students best work over the time in your class so putting it online in one place for the student and I'll show you an example of that and um you could have students give feedback or suggest class activities that they would like to do on a palette and so um Ingrid asks how do we connect it in zoom well I'm going to show you at the end um when I when I demo making a palette you can then share the url in the chat that's the way that we would share within zoom okay so for those of you who have used or you are using now palette in the chat type in um one or two things that you think are its good features nobody's typing oh using video in padlock video easy to use beautiful graphics visual organization multimedia quick setup posting easily commenting organization I can add all my content in one place love the timeline easy to use no login yeah great I mean that's exactly what I have to so um could I ask my students to meet me in palette and share a powerpoint I uploaded and can discuss it together I'm sure that's possible meet me in palette share a powerpoint I uploaded yeah so you could link the powerpoint as a file in palette and say okay everybody meet me here at this time let's look at the powerpoint so they're doing it independently looking at the powerpoint it's not live like a um like zoom would be and then you know have the discussion right there on that palette yes I do think you could do that students love it interactive students have to put that don't have to put their name yes so yeah the newer thing um since when I first started using palette this is not new new it's been around for a few years now but newer is that um there are new types of walls so the first one you see there on the top left is just the standard um students posting and it kind of goes um horizontally and then it goes to the next row and you can see there are different lengths of the posts and so on a newer one is is canvas and that is where things can be scattered and grouped and connected so that would be great for mind mapping and webbing and that kind of activity or showing a process as well stream um I don't really love stream but it is does have some good uses you know when you use a blog or you read a blog the posts are are coming in chronologically and that's kind of what this one is the stream so it's easy to read top to bottom feed so it's just going in a in a vertical row okay a grid is whereby you arrange content in rows of boxes so it's going across the newer one that is awesome is the shelf I was just racking my brain trying to figure out a way for students to do group brainstorming um it could also be a great place to do pros and cons any sort of problem solving activities that could be your best bet right there shelf and I'll show you an example as I mentioned back channel so they're chatting sort of um on the palette as you're presenting and then you you visit that palette to see what was going on and how they were reacting while you were presenting a map is a newer um one and um I'll show you how you can do that but you know um probably if you teach history or different types of things that would be a good one for those of us who teach esl this is awesome this is perfect for students to be able to show where they're from and a timeline does not only have to be used as a timeline so I'll show you some examples so a lot of the examples I'm going to show are not things I created but that I just went through their gallery and found some examples I did the footwork for you so you can see many different things palette is completely free and you record who is logging into your palette well it um you can so there are different privacy um settings for palette that um if you if you were to have um students login with uh or enter a password um to enter the palette then you could see um respond and um yeah so it is free yes okay so some of the benefits as you saw a variety of walls there are many beautiful backgrounds and designs and you can even upload your own image for a background it's super easy teacher setup you can create a wall in a minute and super easy student use when you share the url the qr code um however you decide to share your palette wall all they need to do is either double click if they're on a computer double tap or tap once if they're on a phone or other device um or I'll show you that there is as you can see that um red circle that's usually down in the bottom right which reminds me a lot of google docs and things you are usually looking for that plus sign they can they can also just touch there to enter um multi-platform so you don't have to worry oh I'm using a mac no it doesn't matter it you just need internet um and it so it works on any type of device and posts can be commented and voted on okay and liked so as as um some of you responded yes it's not just for writing not just text you can use images you can put in video screen casting even drawing even so that's got all these new different things that are possible so for the the third icon that you see that has the um magnifying glass with the web so when you go there what it will do is take you to this search box where you can search for images videos gifts um audio and and web links so you can you don't necessarily even have to exit out of palette you can do this within palette searching so um there is in the text area title so what I if I want students to um provide their names I usually tell them to put their name in the title and then they enter in text the upload the up area area area excuse me is for the uploading the hyperlink so linking to anything that's online with the url the search the camera that allows you to upload or use your webcam if you give access so for a device that has a built-in camera and then you see the three dots that go to all these other possibilities this is a bit newer for padlet so it's got everything here um searching in google taking a picture with your camera capturing video from your camera recording audio from your microphone so there's that question about can students reply by audio yes um it's even got screen casting now um so a lot of times we use um loom is my favorite to do a quick tutorial of what's on my screen but you can do this now inside of palette it's not amazing drawing adding a location linking to other padlets that's what those three dots are when you um when you are posting wow lots of possibilities here huh so I think um whoever is in charge of palette they are working for us teachers aren't they um other benefits are privacy and moderation you can set a palette just for students to read and no commenting you can set it for can write so they can post and write and you could even set it as that they can edit so they've posted something and then they change their mind and want to change that post they can come in and do that if you set the moderation and privacy is that um walls can be set to allow others to delete and edit their post and set their own background colors this one's a little bit newer so um I'll show you example of that shortly so you can see the different privacy options in the in that first screenshot there so private it's hidden from everyone um but even if the link is shared then uh you know they won't be able to access have a password so it's hidden from the public but when you share it with your students they'll have to enter a password to enter secret um so if you share it only the people with the link can have it I usually leave mine at public I've never had anyone find my link and put something there I've never had that happen so um yeah that's that's basically um what that is I that's the setting that I use for privacy setting so again you can see the can read can write can edit and then on the far right screenshot you see how students can when they go to post they go to the three dots and they can choose the color of their um of their posting the background color so if you can edit can the students change what the teacher posts uh let's check it out I think so but let's check it out that's a good question Beverly so yeah if you if you don't want them to I've never had any problem with students doing this but um we'll we'll check it in just a bit so what are some benefits um other benefits if someone entered in the chat that is somewhat synchronous so the posts as they're coming on are live you can see students entering it so um that's a great thing that um that you don't have to wait or anything to see the posts let's say that you have a um a palette while you've set up and you want to use it again but with a new class you can remake it and just delete the previous posts um you can create a unique url for each of your palette walls and there are multiple ways you can share you can share um the url you can embed on um an lms like moodle or canvas or blackboard you can share a qr code um and you can take your walls and export them as different file types so as you can see you can um you can export your palette wall as an image a pdf file and so on or print it out of course the multimedia part will be there as an image or a pdf but okay are there any negatives if you are using or have used palette in the chat can you type any negatives you have experienced with palette this would be for the people who actually use it right yeah if you use or have used crickets students can change the teacher's palette so be careful oh okay when sharing qr code it takes up the whole screen uh not really motivated seem other ways or less work yeah okay uh it's been a little hard to learn the first and second time for low level students esl mm-hmm mm-hmm someone sent me a padlet wall and it seemed confusing to me as a non-user okay so um yeah it would be good to be able to demo how to post to your students um i've taught lots of different levels i've not really had students um have troubles posting or understanding what to do but i was able to either in person demo or um you could create a short screencast to show them how okay so the main benefit um well sorry we went over the benefits the one negative is that if you want more than three palettes and you you're just using palette you didn't start using a long time ago you'll need to pay for unlimited palettes you get three for free so that's why the remaking is good so you know um i don't want to use this palette anymore i can delete it or i can remake it and delete the other whatever um it's not expensive it's eight dollars a month but i'm really cheap i never like to pay for anything so i just you know if i had those three i would just you know delete after the class is done and make a new one or remake it and delete the original something like that so you get three palettes for free um with this eight dollars a month you get a lot of other things but honestly i would just go for the free version so um i want to show you some examples as i said in the beginning this is not um just these aren't all my work at all um some of them i was just browsing around in their gallery and trying to find a lot of different examples to help you open your mind to the possibilities so um for your agency um i know we have counselors and um they've created something that's really hard for our students to find um but this could be certain q and a or frequently asked questions that you could post send to your teachers the teachers could share that one url with all their students and they could get that information that way um you could have students or you as a teacher could create a class blog and that's with the um type of wall that's a stream just going straight down um you could make have students um you or you could have your students as well but you could create a home page so you could give some information about your class about me if you have a lot of meetings there is a template for um agendas you could keep your meeting minutes you could even create a resume on a padlet so that's how um teachers and programs could use it um i've been seeing it used a lot in conferences so this first screenshot you see there that was um in 2016 when i did a presentation on formative assessment for katesel so we they did the padlet in the workshop so asking that question how many of you have used this tool and or what do you use for formative assessment and i could see what they use already live right there without having everybody speak in the conference just i went there to that one page and i see okay they already know socrative or kuhu i'm not going to spend as much time on that some of our otan subject matter experts have done um some webinars recently i did one a couple of weeks ago and um what i did was i let me see if it's going to go to the link there we go i um had the participants just like you post to this wall so you can see you can have lots and lots of posts and they were commenting on each other's posts and i didn't ask them to put their names because we're just gathering information so um that's an example of how you might use a palette in um any sort of professional development and then stefanie thomas from san diego community college district um she did this really great um presentation you can see uh a screenshot of her um webinar right there she used palette and zoom and so she went this was her presentation so um after this you will get um a copy of this um slide show that i'm giving you and you'll be able to look at um what she has created this is also posted on the otan website under the co vid resources so um you can see she used what is known as the shelf different headings on each type so she she presented a lot of excellent resources for moving your course online um you know sometimes i actually i want to show this one because i wish i could attend a conference like this um evidently this was some sort of um this was some sort of doughnut pastry conference anyway so you know conferences pd having people introduce themselves you could use that and then there's a sample that i won't show now but um you could have um yourself or you could have students create a digital business card as well okay so now we're going to go into the class activities so um how many of you are using zoom or some sort of video conferencing to present to your class to run your classes let's see yes zoom me yes google me yep okay using zoom zoom screencast for yes zoom yes yes hi cc yes zoom yes cool so um what i've noticing not as much but the same sort of thing that happens in my on-ground face-to-face classes happens online where students don't necessarily get there on time um so what i've been doing is having some sort of um image or question that the early comers can respond to instead of just sitting there waiting for everybody else to get there because i want to start my lesson at the same time you could do a check-in like this where you create a palette and then you share it in the chat and you ask them to go there and you know they could say this says which one shows your current mood and why add a comment by typing your name and an explanation under the picture so um if this one is how he's feeling today or your student they can add a comment or this one so you know different gifts that these are all from giffy by the way um and you know it could be a way to just open up your class until your your majority of your students are there okay so that's something that could be fun for your students too um you can have your class assignments posted and homework resources so one of my colleagues in my program ryan who um who is the creator of esl video he is teaching two multi-level classes bless his heart um and so he shared with me and said that he did not mind if i share with you that he has created a wall that is one of those shelves and so he has a date and homework and he's having students watch videos and practice their english with friends episodes and so he's it goes kind of chronologically horizontally and in that way so um you know you could offer your course on padlet if you wanted to do that it's a possibility so when you as i mentioned when you come back to this um slideshow you can look at all of the hyperlinks i'm just going to focus on one or two per slide so i typically used um palette just for icebreakers and introductions and um so this was a great way for me to get to know students get a little bit of diagnostic about their writing but then they could look at it in in since we in that time we're in a computer lab but now that if you're online they can be seeing what everyone else is posting and get acquainted with each other so um people put in videos people put in images so it turned out really well it was a great way to have students introduce each other what i do usually do then is then um if we're in the classroom i open this up and have students present themselves um and you could if you're using uh zoom or google hangouts or whatever you could also do that have students unmute themselves and tell you what what they have here for their introduction so um the prompt is there you can see when you visit this slideshow um you could have students create an about me um palette and so that would be them creating their own palette and making it so that it's no one can really write on it just view it and so they could you know if you have more time and you have more advanced students they could create an about me like this with some direction about you know um who they are what their goals are um you can see on this one where they live um pets favorite music or something what they like to read favorite food so that would be really fun too so let me see i see a couple um questions in the question answer if you purchase once you make new ones you would use them if uh lose them if canceled um i'm not sure about that i'm sorry i'm not really sure to purchase ones make new ones so christie if you oh oh got a premium version and then you make 20 paddlets would you lose them if you canceled them um i don't have a definitive answer but i would say no i would imagine no because um i have all these paddlets from a long time ago and they didn't disappear so i think once you've created it will still be there is giffy free yes it is yes and um so it has lots of great gifts that you can put into a slideshow or students could even um go there and find a um something to put in a palette how can i get rid of the plus signs that are there to add content once i've completed my palette well then and dad you get i'm not sure i got the question i'm sorry it's probably me i'm a little bit slow today um okay once you post a padlet um if you don't want students to interact with the padlet okay yeah so if you want students just to visit and read and view something there within the sharing options you you will select only can view and then if if you've had them post and you don't want any more posts you can change the privacy or editing moderating capabilities at that point yes you could um so you set up separate palettes for the about me activity um so this would be um students making their own palette for this case but you could have one palette where all students come together and doing about me i would probably do it that case in the shelf so you would maybe go in and put put their name and then they are posting only under that area so you could have a class about me too yes let me see any other questions okay all right all right so let's look some other other examples um lots of things you could do for class activities if you have students make a presentation about a place or just about any presentation they could use palette so i've linked here but i won't go there um someone made a presentation about the seven wonders of the world i don't know if it's the ancient wonders or current wonders of the world i believe um i love this that there's a map now there's so many cool things you could do with a map so i put this into my um canvas course and i asked students to go there and um put a pin where they're from originally these are esl students and i think they're a couple i want to show you because then they could put in pictures and more was it this one it's this one nope this one so this student is from russia she lived in a couple different places i believe and she put in a picture of the northern lights and then i'll go over here i think it was well i'll go back to mexico over here i think it was this one this one so this person's from naya reach mexico he put in a beautiful picture and then this one my student from mexico city this is actually a picture of her um this must have been downtown or something i don't know but um you see this beautiful display so they could put in pictures and videos of um on the pins located where they're from so lots of yeah it's really easy so it's a little bit different um this one is not made to be able to be edited but in the bottom right there's that little pin marker and they can drag it or they type in they type in the city where the and it will go to that place because um you know i probably would not be accurate myself at putting a pin where i'm from necessarily so it will go to those coordinates actually so yes i think it's probably integrated a bit with google maps or something i'm not sure so um a lot of different things you could do with that um as i mentioned the beginning you could have students set goals so this is just a simple one that is from the gallery that i found this person made short-term goals and long-term goals and we know when we have students set goals for our class that is um something that is very effective because then first of all you know what their needs are and then you can meet their needs and point out to them the reason why i'm teaching this is because you have the goal of this and you need this to be able to reach your goal um for vocabulary you could um you could assign students all the same vocabulary word or you could assign students different vocabulary words probably taken from a reading and they could put the definition of the vocabulary word they could write out um perhaps the the different synonyms maybe an antonym or two an original sentence maybe a sentence that the vocabulary word actually came from whatever text that was and then this is kind of like your class dictionary so everybody can go there and see oh you defined it with this picture i use more of a picture like this so um it's kind of like what you may have in your classroom a vocabulary wall or bulletin board and so this would just be the multimedia version of that okay so i did some searching within the gallery and i see some other ways that teachers are doing this so this looks like a high school biology class you see here and that um teacher put all kinds of different resources for each unit in the textbook so students could go there see some supplementary information she has their notes and she has video and all kinds of great things about the parts of the body i guess it is and then um i want to show one in a moment but this one this one was the class was reading about the the biography of malala and so she had discussion questions so she the teacher who made this she made it so that they cannot actually interact this it was only can view not can edit or post but um it was kind of like where she's putting discussion questions before each chapter and so students could kind of focus their reading so um that's something you could do i'll show you this one as well so curation means the way of taking all different resources that you have that you someday want to use with your students so this one the teacher um put all kinds of resources about global warming so maybe she's going to have the students do some writing she'll have students do a presentation and there are lots of resources here that she wants them to visit actually rather than just send them into the worldwide web on their own so you can curate resources gather up your resources as kind of like digital bookmarks let me see a couple of quick um yes so review archiving oh archiving palettes um thanks marisol mary marisol maybe if you know how to do that yourself you can share with us um i'm not sure about archiving because when i log in they're just all there so um i'm not sure i know how to do that um betty do all of these activities require their own palette um yes so um each of the activities i'm showing you um are one palette wall okay when you go to the gallery i'll i'll give the link at the end the there is the general gallery and then there's an educators gallery as well okay so let's go on um you remember that kwl so this is probably from elementary school or something the example you see there what do we know about giraffes and students um students either the teacher was recording probably in this case um the different things the students responded but then she could come back to it you know in a day or two after they have already done the reading about giraffes i really like this one um this seems to be something more at the high school level level yeah marisol you could um link a flip flip board flip grid i think it's what you mean yeah um so here this is a higher level human body systems um looks like high school level so what i know you know what what the lungs are for and what skin is and all that and then what they want to know and what they learned so i believe that this person set up this wall as the shelf so that gives a like overhead title and then students came and posted here this is how um i have used palette very recently just a couple weeks ago in my class where students we are reading about the obesity problem here in the united states and how fast food is not very um healthy and um so their paragraph topic was about um the question of whether fast food should have warning labels like cigarettes do and like you know cleaning materials do and even alcohol has a warning label so i put them in groups and then i shared the url within zoom in the chat and they together with their group they were talking among themselves i did breakout groups and then they were talking and they posted their answers so each group had two columns and the shelf layout and they answered yes with different reasons and i told them even if you think yes they should you need to think of the opposite side play the devil's advocate and think of no as well okay so bed c says where is the map um so i'll show you that in just a bit it's one of the wall types so yes okay um this is another example of um how i used this palette wall as a unit opener as pre writing pre reading pre listening and so i have a unit that um we do some reading about happiness around the world we watch a documentary and then um eventually students um write a paragraph defining happiness in their own you know meaning and then um they make a presentation as well so before we did any of the reading i just asked them to go to this wall and say um what are five things that make you happy double click anywhere begin writing type your first name type five complete sentences you can add a picture or video as you like and then we read this all together and they had lots of different ideas and then this was pretty much the outline for their paragraph right so i just explained to them while you you say that spending time with your family and friends is something that makes you happy but you need to explain a little bit more about that do students need to have two devices to do the group work in zoom no um it can be tricky especially on a phone because as melinda said at the beginning of this they'll need to do something to their zoom room to um change the view options so they can go back and forth between their zoom room and the padlet yeah so i hope that answers your question if not i can come back to it um so let's see you can hold class discussions on a padlet so one of my colleagues katrina she is teaching a level four esl and she asked them to she asked her students to post to this padlet about what is social distancing for you and um they gave their definitions and you can see there were likes i don't know if you can see it's very small but there's like one like for the first post two likes even a comment for one of those this is my very first padlet i'll show you and it used to be that um the postits or the the posts were on top of each other i really hated that so i went in and fixed it but um you know if you have a holiday coming up or you know any kind of reading or viewing that you have students do it's good to activate their background information but this one was just before um before valentine's day and so students went in there and they answered the question what is the most romantic whatever movie song act someone is ever done for you evening idea for a date place and then we came back to this and like okay gentlemen this is where you should take your wife for dinner tomorrow so um it was it was just something kind of fun to do um so it doesn't all have to be academic serious and stuffy it could be fun i want to show you this one as well so this was an assignment actually and it was a group um posting assignment so the teacher shared a documentary about climate change and then the students had to somehow meet up maybe they were texting each other i don't really know this teacher but then they came together here most of them were in groups and they posted their responses so they had to uh write a blog post is what she called it so their their reactions to the documentary that they watched so um if you use novels books you could have group discussions um you could have preview discussion questions about a book or reading passage before the class meeting and so on and can you reformat palette without losing any posts i believe you can i just think that there are some that you wouldn't be able to like a map the map you can't reformat but if you started off with um perhaps you started with a grid and you want to make it into just a wall you can it just the timeline um i i believe the timeline the shelf and the canvas would not be able to remake in the different formats because they're very specific to different postings and christie the previous slide was in reference to the social distancing oh you want to see what they what they put okay so this this student put and i asked students not to put their last names but anyway i you know i tell them they can even use a nickname or something this one says i'm it's very important i'm working with my colleagues so we protect ourselves from the contagion it is living together but keeping a distance it's a precaution for me in the rest of the world wow really great vocabulary i'll be working alone on happy face with no co-workers in my department because only one person per department is going to be working but i could stay home um enjoying my family yes so that was and then so you see the last post someone commented um so either the student wasn't sure how to make their post or they just you know wanted to react to that other student's post so yeah that could be something you know especially with this there's there's a lot of loneliness a lot of chances for anybody in this time to get a little bit of depression so this kind of this could be actually therapeutic probably in some way and yes what i could do i won't do it because that's not my palette but you could go in if students typed too much information you could go in and edit it since it's your palette account where do you reform a palette so you go into your palette account and you can you can choose and see all of your palettes you can select one and then you can go to the options of setup and you can change it yeah but again there are some you don't want to change the ones you could change would be wall stream take a test on the quiet revolution website and they find out whether they are tending to be more introverted person extroverted or if they're somewhere in the middle an ambivert and then they write a paragraph so before we even got into that unit what i usually do in my classroom is i have these words that you see at the top of each um area and there are four corners and i say okay let's go over these words and now i want you to get up walk to the corner that has the words that describe you best and give like a couple of examples but obviously we can't do this we're not in a classroom so i was racking my brain how i want to do this it's such a great part of this lesson plan that i do so that's when i rediscovered padlet and this shelf that you see here is the way to do a four corners so it could be just about any class topic that you want students to discuss so then students you know i shared this actually shared the url for this padlet wall in canvas students click there and we didn't do it live in zoom it was kind of after class homework and they typed in their responses oh god it was like it was like a revelation like i'm saved because i it was very hard to think of how you could do four corners online this is the solution shelf a shelf walk you could have students create e portfolios um so i'll show you a quick example this is one i found in the gallery and so i would not be able to find this if the student had not made it public so you want to you if you do have students make their own walls you want to explain that because i don't think she probably wants everyone to know her her high school transcript but i thought i won't go there but i'm just going to show you this as an example this was her senior portfolio so sometimes um folks in high school and for sure in cte areas they they make a portfolio i love this one um this book reviews so there's a question about can they put audio so this is from a high school um i guess the teacher english language arts assigned our students selected a book that they want to read and made a book report so they these are their book reports with images um the sound clouds for some reason didn't work but if i go down there are there's audio that the students added to their book report so they the teacher could hear them talking they could hear each other's talking and also read at the same time so that's a great use for for esl teachers hey we could put something we want students to read and we could read it on sound cloud or some other online voice recording device or website and we could put the link there so students could hear which they are reading the text okay class projects um one teacher created a quiz but this was the type of quiz where you still write it on paper but i just wanted to include that as example here's the timeline so um you see this one the teacher made this the planets of the solar system so students could be assigned to do something like this as well and then i'll show this one i know we probably don't teach dinosaurs a whole lot in adult ed but um it's a timeline of the different types of dinosaurs um here's a teacher that made use the timeline not really for posting but more for instructional content showing the scientific method um these other examples you can visit on your own a plot diagram if students are reading novels if they are reading um any kind of text and you want them to sketch out main ideas and details so lots of different possibilities with the timeline here's an example i found um it's you know we often do that find someone who in the first week of class or sometimes to practice a certain topic um in class and so this was a find someone who um i don't know why they used to map as the background i wouldn't use a map but this was like um find someone in your neighborhood who rides a bike to work so you could do this more as a scavenger hunt where they're looking for things online and they could post the link so um that's getting close to something that's like a web quest then um i found a couple really great how-tos you see the one in front of you this person put how to train for your first marathon and they use the shelf as you can see so they've got each part each section under the shelf under a heading and then um this one is just so beautiful they they did not use the shelf instead they used what is called the stream like a blog so it works really well with this linear type of explanation how to create a mural so i'm sure there's some content from your class that students could present as a how-to so i have a couple questions here could you show us how to start the palette vocabulary class dictionary you're lucky hasus i have a link to um something that you can create really easily i believe um amy in canvas do you have your students write their names on their responses or do you have so i usually don't have students create their own palettes i haven't gotten to that stage yet instead i have them just posting to palette and i i tell them just to put your their first name when i used to embedded palette my students came up oh that's interesting um so yeah there is a way to embed a palette within canvas if we have time at the end i'll look at one i don't recall that students names were erased um but i'll check into that and amy i'll try to get back to you on that if we have time at the end or if you want to email me your question i can check on that too um do you ever do readings this is a fun activity so one time i had a reading that we did in class it was about the brain and um to guide their reading i came up with before we read like these questions like how much does the human brain weigh one pound three to five pounds 10 pounds what do you think or it could be like this one that you see true or false or factor fiction so kind of a pre-reading activity where they're voting okay um no writing just voting so you're just creating the questions in post to a palette and then you can create it so their likes or or dislikes um you know the thumb up thumb down or stars or whatever you choose and then you can have you know you can have the students go to that palette and vote and then after the reading come back like oh 50 of you weighs 10 pounds you're wrong but what do we learn in the reading so it's a way you could do pre-reading activities um for an exit ticket so this is at the end of a class or the end of a unit or learning objective that you give students feedback um actually students are giving you feedback on what they learned okay so this one the teacher said write down one thing you learned and one thing you're confused about so that's a good formative assessment too so the next class the teacher knows i need to go back and cover the greenhouse effect a bit more i didn't explain it very well today i use palette two um i teach eight week terms and at the end of week four i ask students to honestly give me feedback i tell them this class is your class i want it to meet your needs tell me what you need more of you did not have to put your name so you can see no one did put their name but you know it says um basically these questions double click on the page and type your responses to these questions what do you like so far um what is difficult for you what do you want to practice more so then week five i come back and you thank you for the information you said you want to practice more this i'm delivering and we know from research that when you clearly and explicitly match your instruction to students needs they stay in your class right otherwise they they start asking why am i here why am i learning this so there are padlet apps i've not used the app to be honest but um there are um apps for both apple products and android products those are the links there and there's something called um padlet mini and basically it's not the same thing it's what it is is it's like a bookmarking tool so you can add it to your chrome browser as an extension and so what it does you know i have my bookmarks that are just the titles of the web pages but this will create kind of a more of a view of what's on that web page so you can see what's on that web page for your bookmarks if you need more ideas i have a couple of links here we have about 15 minutes left that you can visit i don't know if you've ever heard of this gentleman i can't think of his last name but um his first name is matt and he has this incredible website um ditch that textbook and he has all kinds of great ideas he is like more k through 12 there's a ton of stuff that you could learn for adult ed not just padlet but all kinds of different excuse me all kinds of different um websites and apps and then here's one um 30 creative ways to use padlet for teachers and students as well if you still need more ideas then there is a best of education gallery that's separate from the general gap gallery where um they've curated different assignments and things that and resources that teachers like so you can get some ideas there as well and so what i'm going to do now is um a short demo um i didn't make a video myself because why reinvent the wheel this gentleman some tech ed teacher um created this great youtube video so it's linked here where says video tutorial and it's here in the slideshow which you'll receive after this webinar and um it shows you step by step how to do that i will demo it's not going to be a great demo it's just going to be quick and fast so basically teachers you need to you go to padlet.com and you need to create your account if you don't have one okay i already have one and so i'm gonna log in you can see you can log in with your google you can log in with microsoft account if you have that or apple account um thank goodness for crone chrome it remembers all my passwords because i probably wouldn't remember and i'll check my password later i can see all of my walls now again as i mentioned i started using these a long time ago this website so it allowed me more than three it it didn't erase my old work so that's the answer to that question like if you were to purchase palette uh eight dollars a month then um once the the subscription is finished you would probably still be able to see your palettes so it's real simple you go here make a palette in the top left i see all the options all the possibilities um shelf again good for group work um map is a map a timeline is a timeline so um things events in history on a line or processes canvas could be a process i'm going to do the simple one okay i'm going to just do the wall because that that's more suited for what we're going to do here every time you make a new one there's going to be a different background it's kind of just giving you a default okay so what i do then is move this out of the way um you give it a name this will open automatically my grand wall now we'll call this oh 10 palette 2020 then description it puts something silly there usually so that's where i usually put the question prompts that i want students to answer but um let's just say um how will you use padlet the icon um it gives you different choices all these little emojis and that goes in the top left corner of your wall um what i usually do you can add your own the bottom i usually upload like my school's uh logo or something like that um i could upload a picture of my students or a picture of me so you can add any sort of icon but something happy i like this one okay so you you saw that appear in the top left corner um now here's a really cool thing it gives you a default or just um a url but there's no way this is so ugly palette it's always going to be palette.com forward slash your username forward slash and then it gives you something but the beautiful thing is i can customize my url so i'm going to take out that guy r9 blah blah blah and i'm going to put in um oh tan padlet 2020 let's see if it's taken it doesn't tell me it's taken okay then we go down to the appearance um those candies are disgusting if you like i'm good for you so you can put in a beautiful picture as the background you could put in a texture or pattern a solid color a gradient or you could upload your own picture so in the past i've sometimes uploaded a picture of our school or something or even a picture of the students let's go look at the pictures let's see something be oh there we go beautiful sunset watercolor sunset then i'm always going a little back arrow okay that's the wallpaper um let's see if there's anything else if i want to change the color scheme i don't really notice a big difference in that um if i want to change the font i'm fine with what we have attribution display author name above each post this would be especially if you're sharing this um in a way that they have to put in a password it will probably ask you know force them to put their name i've never used that i um i usually tell students you put your name or a nickname new post position where do you want them to appear when someone else comes to post after the last student do you want to appear at the top like the first or do you want it to be at the last i'm just gonna put first allow viewers to comment yes i want them to be able to comment on each other's posts reactions there's some different kinds of reactions no reaction or students can like each other's posts with a heart this is for voting the thumb up thumb down stars so like a likert scale one to five stars you can even grade students now remember privacy if this is a whole class wall um we we should not be giving grades where all the other students can see but if you had students make their own wall maybe for a project then you could give the grade with on that wall i'm just going to put like and then we go to the back then content filtering i've never i've always made mine completely public and never had a problem but if you wanted to you could turn on the my the moderator filtering this means that every time someone posts you get an email with whatever account you decided to sign up with for a palette and then you'll have to come back to the palette and approve each post and filter profanity i've never had that i mean we teach adults they they should know right but if you wanted to you could turn that on and what i've never tried it but what it does is it replaces bad words with nice emojis that would be cute to try that out sometime maybe just with your family not with your students okay so once i've done all of that i click next and i can start posting okay but i don't want to do that just yet um okay make sure everything's good okay close now i go to the gear icon and oh sorry not that one i go now to the share icon and here is where i can invite people and they'll have to probably put in their email or something let's see what it looks like so i don't even know it's looking for other palette members i've never been used that but that's a way you could do it privacy secret is the default visitors can write you can change the privacy making it private password secret i always keep mine as public probably secret or public is the best back and then you see all the sharing options you can copy the link and then you put that in canvas or send it by email a text you can get the qr code so you could um you could have students use a qr code scanner from their phone and they could go ahead and scan that and it would take them right to the palette this is for embedding like if you're using an lms and you don't want students to go out of the lms you could have this embedded right in your page you can email a share social media share on google classroom okay so um i i don't use google classroom if you do you should check that out and and tell us how you do that maybe you propose a workshop how to use palette on google classroom and then export once everything's done those are the options okay let me see if there are any questions before i share this oh really okay qr code doesn't always work i don't know i'm sorry um i i kind of like in the lms carlos i like to embed it and link it both um so yeah i would do both just to be sure that that students can access it yeah i'm sorry betty i'm not sure i i haven't used the qr code a lot because i'm using an lms where students just click so chime in go ahead um betty on the qr codes their students have to allow their phones to take a picture so they have to allow can or not canvas but they have to allow padlet to access the qr code they also have might have to have a qr code reader installed on their phone some of the older phones um the newer i should say the newer iphone and the newer androids when you just use your camera to do a qr code it will open it it recognizes it and it will it knows what it is so it opens the site the older phones they don't have that capability they actually have to install the app a qr code reader and there are a lot of free ones out of there so it is still possible but i think that might be the problem on your students side okay thank you yeah i forgot to mention that um i when i use qr codes i have students install a free qr code reader they open it they point it it focuses and then it will go straight to that internet site thank you melinda for clearing that up okay well let me go back here so i'll close that so um i've got everything set the way i wanted um again to share i'm gonna just copy the link okay and now what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna go to the chat okay so i'm gonna paste the url in the chat do you see it we do and if they want to open it this is new in zoom folks you cannot click on the link so everyone stop typing stop stop stop stop stop typing stop because right now the qr code is