Now thru Week 15: Wakelet
FALL 2019 EDCI 318 Tech for Teaching & Learning
Create your own Wakelet with at least 5 collections
Wakelet: an awesome tool
I been using Wakelet for a bit now and am quite excited about the possibilities of Wakelet for its use in the classroom and even for students to use. I am still using Pinterest, mine has 100+ boards and nearly 15,000 resources pinned, so truthfully getting a bit overwhelming.
I discovered Wakelet and have been creating collections for SPECIFIC topics and a few articles by teachers about how they use Wakelet. You will be seeing quite a few this semester.
- Find Copyright friendly images
- Keynote Resources
- Kevin Honeycutt
- Educational Podcasts
- Design Apps & Tutorials
- Five Ways to Infuse Wakelet in Your Classroom
- 12 curation ideas for students and teachers with Wakelet
- Using Wakelet In The Classroom For Curation And Research
- Curation App Wakelet in the Classroom: A Powerful Tool
Wakelet allows you to share articles, videos, images, tweets, files and other great content with one link. Save them for later and create collections, called wakes, at any time.
- Save: Use Wakelet to save links to great content that you find online – articles, videos, blogs, tweets, sound files and much more. Adding items is easy. Just copy and paste the links or add them straight from our browser extension.
- Curate: Arrange your saved items into stunning collections called wakes. Wakes can be public or private and created on any topic - share a passion, promote your business, or gather research. You can also make your wakes personal by adding notes, reordering items, changing layouts and much more.
- Share: Wakes can be shared anywhere online, either with a single link or by embedding them using an embed code. It’s easy to share your wakes with your friends, family and colleagues… or even the world!
- Just like the wakes that boats and planes create, every wake you create leaves a path for others to follow.
- Wakes show progress, easily help you build stories and ensure that the content you spent time finding is never buried or lost.
Check out my public profile or Wakes, my collections are growing, I am even using it personally!! https://wakelet.com/@CyndiKuhn9126.
And here are a few I found other teachers created using the EXPLORE button at the top of the page. Do a little digging on your own.
- Learning Spanish Online-
- Get Hyped for Back To School
- Flat Stanley Rides the Wakelet Wave around the World
- The Victorians and Charles Dickens
- Dr. Martin Luther King Day Resources
- Ed Tech Integrations
- The Marie Kondo Effect
- iPad Accessibility: Discussing Accessibility features of the iPad
- Independent Learning with iPad
- Interested in Becoming a Google Certified Teacher?
- Check out the Explore button on top and find lots more.
So... what’s a wake? Wakes are stunning story-like collections of content curated by people like you.
Bookmarking with Wakelet
Save and organize links into shareable collections. In just a couple of clicks, you can save and organize links to articles, videos, tweets, and anything else on the web. When you see something you'd like to save, just click the Wakelet button.
And you are in luck it has a Chrome extension. It did have a safari extension, but with the recent Safari update, they are working on it.
Get the app, but also install the button in your browser on your computer.
A QUICK GUIDE TO USING WAKELET ON THE IPAD
Same for phone our iPad
Chrome Extension: http://bit.ly/2iSoCby
Firefox Extension: https://mzl.la/2ETQOHb
Safari Extension update coming soon: https://apple.co/2nEUEMH
iOS App: https://apple.co/2kaiQXT
Android App: http://bit.ly/2CS5qGz
- Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Wakelet
- Twitter - https://twitter.com/wakelet
- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wakelet
So what are you going to do?
Each collection you create is specific resources on that one topic.
This is not due until Week 15. Do. not wait until Week 15 to begin, start now!!
You will provide the Link to your Wakelet profile during Week 15. For example, this is my Wakelet Profile link to all my different collections/Wakelets https://wakelet.com/@CyndiKuhn9126
What you need to know and do between now Week 3 and Week 7:
- 5 different collections (at least, more if you want)
- Not less than 10 resources in each of 5 collections
- 5 collections x 10 resources each = 50 resources total. (this is minimum, you can have more and I hope you do.)
- 250 points. In other words, 5 x 50 = 250
- This impacts your final grade a great deal.
- Must have a cover design added to each collection. Using Canva, or another design app, make a cover Graphic for each collection. I have discovered that Postcard works nicely for the full cover size, takes a little tweeking though!! There is also an option for 1/2 cover size.
Look at the examples, think about units and topics you have to teach. RESEARCH THAT SPECIFIC TOPIC AND FIND NOT LESS THAN 10 VALUABLE RESOURCES for each topic collection WAKE YOU COULD USE IN YOUR TEACHING LIFE.
For example, you are an elementary teacher, yup, you teach everything. Pick a grade level and create a collection for each subject you might teach (reading, writing, social studies, science, math, etc). But maybe consider taking it one step further, let's take social studies, in 4th grade they do a unit on explorers (its a standard), you could make a collection with all the resources you might need for the Explores unit.
THE MORE SPECIFIC AND LIMITED YOUR COLLECTION TOPIC THE EASIER FOR YOU LATER.
For example, you are a secondary journalism teacher. So different collections might be editorial writing, feature writing, sports writing, photography, layout & design, newspapers my students need to read, graphics, copyright, etc.
In other words, make your collection extremely specific on one topic.
Cyndi Kuhn
Cyndi
College of Education
Kansas State University
Wakkelet
Twitter
Pinterest
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Email: edtechksu@gmail.com
Website: cyndikuhn.info
Location: Gardner, KS, United States
Phone: 785-320-0025
Twitter: @cyndidannerkuhn