Integrating Technology
Using technology to communicate, collaborate, and create
Padlet
(Used to be called Wallwisher)
This is like an online bulletin board. Students do not need an account in order to post on your boards. You can post images, documents, and comments on your boards.
Board Profile
Give your board a title, a description, and a portrait (a small image shown in the top left-hand corner)
Board Wallpaper
Give your board a background design appropriate to its use
Board Layout
Posts can be put all over the board (helter-skelters style) or posted one after another in a row; you can change the layout later too
Board Address
You can give your board a web address that is easy to remember and makes sense to you/your students
Board Privacy
You can make your board public, private, or viewable only if you know the web address; you can also allow students to only view your board or to post on it
Sharing
You can export your board as a pdf file for printing, e-mail it to yourself, or put a link to the board on your blog
Popplet
iPad App
This is a mind map creator.
For the online version, students must have an e-mail in order to register for popplet and in order to collaborate on the same popplet.
For the iPad version, students do not need to log in; however, they cannot collaborate across devices either.
Popple
A popple is the bubble that has your post in it; you can change the colour, draw something, change the text size, add a picture or video, etc.
Links
You can link popples together to show connections between ideas
Comments
By clicking on the little speech bubble on the top right-hand corner of each popple, you can add or view extra comments about that specific idea
Share
You can send or post a link to your popplet on your class site for others to view (no editing privileges)
Collaborate
You must add collaborators in order to allow others to add popples to your popplet; you can do this by adding their e-mail addresses or usernames
Home Page
With the free account, you are limited to 5 popplets
Prezi
iPad App
Prezi is a presentation software similar to PowerPoint, but it looks much more like a mind map.Students must have an e-mail address in order to sign up for an account.
Templates
You can choose a pre-existing template if you'd like to, or you can just choose "blank"
Themes
If you chose "blank" you can now choose a theme so you have a set arrangements of colours
Frames
Frames and arrows allow you to organize your Prezi; draw frames and keep all text that belongs together within the same frame
Insert Items
You can insert images, symbols, diagrams, videos, music, and even powerpoint presentations into your prezi
Share
You can share your prezi with others so that they can view your prezi or edit your prezi; you can also download your prezi as a pdf file if you'd like to save or print your work
Invite Others
You invite others by giving them a link to go to; they will need an account to access the link
Wait! My students don't have e-mail addresses!
No problem!
If you have a gmail address, you can give your students their own e-mail addresses.
For example, imagine my e-mail address is teacher@gmail.com.
My student can list his/her e-mail address as teacher+studentname@gmail.com.
Programs like Prezi and Popplet will recognize this as an e-mail address. Your student can list his/her own password (i.e., student number).
Gmail does NOT recognize anything after the + sign. Therefore, any e-mail that gets sent to your student's faux address actually comes to you! Your student will also NOT be able to sign into gmail.
So, you've given them an address to use, but they still don't have an e-mail!