So, I might be a little late on my game with this one, but once I saw what John @room_ten was doing with his students using Padlets I thought, "This is awesome!"
What a great way to shake up shared writing by having other people across the globe "share the pen...or the keyboard; whichever!"
We first received an invite to add our favourite books to Centennial School's "I Love to Read Wall" for their I Love to Read Celebration. I then thought that the idea was pretty neat, so I created a simple padlet to start. We generated our "Questions About Canada" on sticky notes a few weeks back and posted them onto our bulletin board.
The other night I secretly typed my students' questions up onto a padlet and surprised them with it yesterday!
They were so excited to find out that other people (outside of our school) could add to our padlet and that others could share what they knew, with us!
Some students even went home and did a little research with their families, and added their answers to the padlet. Our padlets are easily accessible through our classroom blog with a page tabbed "padlets."
I think we've just tipped our toes into a exciting and different experience....where students are so excited about school and their learning that they contribute to their learning from home in a more meaningful way!
I'm liking where this is heading :)
-N
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