How Padlet and Nearpod boost student engagement and collaboration

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Hello Edu Magicians, welcome to
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Now let's get on to the episode.
Hello Edgy Magicians, and

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welcome back to another episode
of the Edgy Magic Podcast.

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My name is Doctor Sam Festus,
and today the podcast is being

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taken over again by students at
Slip Rock University.

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Today you're going to hear from
two groups of future teachers.

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One group is going to talk about
Padlet, and the other group is

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going to talk about in your pod.
They're going to share about how

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you can use these tools to have
an engaging learning

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environment, interactive slides
and items with both those tools

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so you can get students
interacting with your course

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content in real time, and then
how you can use that data to

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make teaching decisions.
So TuneIn, get ready.

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These episodes are so much fun
for collaboration, interactive

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classrooms, and engaging
learning experiences.

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Here we go.
Welcome.

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My name is Alan Ragani.
And I'm Mia Pazzano and today we

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will be discussing an amazing
teacher tool called Padlet.

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Yes, Padlet is an amazing tool
for both teachers and students

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and we're going to share a
little bit and student widest.

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There are many ways to use
Padlet, creating many

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opportunities for students to
interact with each other.

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Yeah, students can respond to
questions through collaboration,

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board or interactive
presentation.

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As an educator, you can choose
whether students.

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Respond.
Honestly or not.

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Padlet also makes it pretty easy
to break a large class into

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smaller groups and gives them a
virtual space to collaborate

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with each other.
Some options include whiteboard

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brainstorming, web presentation,
Venn diagram, and a question of

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the day.
These encourage participation

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from all the students, not just
the extroverts.

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Like me, one of the best pork
Padlet is that it's three years

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that provides many ways to
moderate.

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I love using Padlet in the
classroom to help increase class

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participation and diversity of
opinion, especially with the

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collaboration board feature.
Recently, I personally used a

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Padlet in order to collaborate
with my classmates for an

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upcoming exam.
I even sent the link to a friend

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who is also studying for the
same test.

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Using the Padlet was very easy
and it was really nice to

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organize my things through their
sandbox.

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Feature.
Not only was it visually

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appealing, but I was able to add
text notes, sticky notes,

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photos, and links all right to
the sandbox.

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I like that indeed.
I'll using it to say once you're

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at some point, but I know that
throughout my college career,

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like I said, there have been a
few times in which I had youth

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Padlet to hold class discussion
and it is also a great way to

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keep records for students and
everything else.

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Recently.
But when working with the

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technology tool, it's important
to know that what danger around

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wow, it's perfect for having
students collaborate with each

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other can be rested to have
students post from everything

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more as Billy or Johnny would
say, something that is not

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appropriate.
A really easy way to establish

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ground fix this is to establish
ground rules.

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If they are treating the
software with respect, they

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can't use it.
This promotes digital

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citizenship and professionalism
among the students.

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Right, and another issue is that
the link can sometimes bring

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change, making it possible for
CS access to pilot.

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Fortunately, the only solution
is to double check that the

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Padlet links aren't working
while they're active and do a

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little about troubleshooting.
I think Padlet might also be a

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little intimidating for students
who feel pressured to respond

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quickly or correctly.
Yeah, I agree, and luckily

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Padlet allows teachers to say
whether the student things are

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in their limits or not, which is
always a nice.

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Feature 100% Overall, Padlet is
a fantastic tool for both

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students and teachers to use.
Right, and from studying with

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friends to collaborating in
small works and classes, we're

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now looking to see progress in
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Padlet has something for
everyone.

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Hi, my name is Jude Klimstein.
Hi.

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I'm Alex Ritchie.
And today, we're going to be

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going over an Ed tech tool.
We're so glad and thankful to be

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able to be welcomed on to the
podcast for the week.

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And we're excited to be able to
give you guys a great example of

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why our Ed tech tool is one of
the best.

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And Richie, what is our Ed tech
tool?

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You're perfect nearby.
For sure, we love Nearpod in so

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many ways.
I know both of us have been able

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to use this in our own class
experience either in high school

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or in college or in I had some
in middle school and elementary

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school too.
And I've actually gotten to be

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able to work program and get to
learn how to use it and get

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better and better and so really
fun.

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Yeah.
So we're going to start just

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with some benefits of Nearpod.
So Nearpod, they're super

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professional company.
You're like up here.

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I have linked one of their ads.
You can see your pod is a pro

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company.
They've been doing this for

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years is what they've done.
Any thoughts?

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Just the way it's set up to, to
cater to like different ways of

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assessing with like quizzes in
open end conversations like

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that, it's amazing.
And it's real time too, so it's

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like perfect use in the
classroom.

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Yeah.
It really is perfect to use in

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the classroom.
They do a really excellent job

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of that.
And so you mentioned a little

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bit earlier we were talking
about that as different

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assessment types about this
instant feedback kind of thing.

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Can you tell us a little bit
about how that can be really

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useful in the classroom?
The Force.

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So one of the great things is
you can do a presentation, like

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a live presentation with the
students in there.

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They are actively responding
while you're doing the

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presentation.
So one kid says something that's

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longer incorrect.
You can just be like that's

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wrong or incorrect.
So they get immediate feedback,

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which helps them more than
better because they're not

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waiting for feedback to come
later.

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So they can just fix their
mistaken media.

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Yeah, I also like on the teacher
level, like you don't have to

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wait for homework assignment to
come back to see how this is

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where my students are
struggling.

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It's like this active example
of, oh, my students are

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struggling.
This I can see.

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And now I can address it now at
the tone.

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And I think that's really
useful.

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Yeah.
In my personal opinion, and I

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don't know what your experience
is doing with this, but Nearpot

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has been astoundingly easy to
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It's on a teacher level.
The slideshow creation tools are

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very streamlined and I feel like
they do a very excellent job of

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making it easy for the teachers.
See Student.

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Easy to make an account, easy to
get set up, and it's easy to.

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Follow along the.
Shows you everything you need to

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ask questions.
It shows you everything you

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need, lines everything for you
and so it.

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Really is absolutely.
Oh, and yeah, this is a whole

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crucial aspect that we hadn't
even talked about yet.

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And it's like this whole thing
with out of class work near pod

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doesn't just have to stay stuck
in the classroom as a

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presentation.
It's not just like this is the

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presentation we're doing today.
No, like it can also be like a

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form of other informant.
I know I had teachers use this

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when they were out sick so they
had themselves lecturing in the

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near pod.
What about you?

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Being personally I'm not a class
work if I.

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Were to do something.
Probably use near pod.

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Because.
Of how easy it is and how easy

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it is to sell.
Yeah, I I agree.

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Like when we do out of class
work, it's on our greatest way

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to meet with students needs.
But I wouldn't say this is a

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very engaging way, especially
because it gives you so much

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control over what your students
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So it's almost like being in
class but out of class.

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Anyways, I do overall just think
Nearpod is an excellent product.

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I think it does a very good job
of doing exactly what purpose is

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for.
I really hope that you guys have

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been able to see just how useful
near pod can be and how useful

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it can be in your.
Class using your pod.

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Absolutely.
I'm Jude Klumstein.

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I'm Alex Richie.
And this has been the near the

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perfect near pod.
All right folks, there you have

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it.
I hope that you check out Padlet

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or Near Pod for your next way to
engage students in learning.

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Remember, you have the Edu magic
within you.

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Bye for now.
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