5 Ways To Enrich Your Lessons With Padlet Comments!

One of favorite online collaboration and curation tools is Padlet!  

I use this every week in so many different ways.  

As a teacher librarian and classroom teacher, Padlet is one of the best ways to have students share, collaborate, create and connect to others within their school and outside of the four walls into the world.  

Our friends have made Padlet even more powerful by adding a Comment feature to the posts put onto a Padlet.  

This feature can be turned on and off under Modify at the top of each Padlet.  

The yellow arrow is pointing to the Modify button circled in hot pink. 

When you click on Modify a drop down menu will pop up.  Scroll towards the bottom to Modify Padlet and click on Comments, which will allow viewers to comment on posts.

Once that is selected, you will see that turning it off disables new comments, but the existing comments will stay put.

Take a look at this Padlet I created....How Do You Promote eBooks and eResources In Your Library? 

I turned the Comments on and was able to leave one to my friend Heather Lister's post about using eBook shelf markers to promote eBooks within her schools MackinVIA.

You can view this Padlet here and even add Comments too. 

Here are five ways you can use Padlet Comments to enrich your lessons too....

As a teacher librarian and classroom teacher, Padlet is one of the best ways to have students share, collaborate, create and connect to others within their school and outside of the four walls into the world.

1. Use Padlet to have students share what they are thankful for this week as we prepare for a very special holiday.  With comments on, classmates can respond to the thankfulness of others.

2. Use Padlet as a research tool.  For example, your students are researching the Mayflower.  They can add videos, articles, information, pictures and other artifacts to the Padlet.  By turning on comments, classmates can add additional information under those initial posts.

3.  Use Padlet as a place to create collaborative stories with children within your school or even outside in other places throughout the world.  You, as the teacher or teacher librarian, can add several story starters to a Padlet.  Invite students to pick one of the story starters and add comments to the posts.

4.  Use Padlet as a way for students to give feedback on classmates work.  For example, all of your students have created Buncee's highlighting a National Park.  When they are finished with the Buncee, have them add the URL to a Padlet you started called Our National Park Buncees! After all of the students have added their Buncee to the Padlet, invite the students to give positive feedback to one another through the comments on the Padlet posts.  This is also a great Padlet to share with others so they can learn about all of the National Parks too.

You can see Hagan's Rocky Mountain Park Buncee here.

5. Use it as a place for students to journal by adding posts to an individual Padlet.  By turning on comments, you as the teacher can leave feedback to the posts....They can even get feedback or comments from family, friends and others throughout the world.  This is a lot like commenting on a blog post too.

As you can see there are so many awesome ways to use Padlet and being able to comment on posts has just made it even better!