In our second session of the semester last week, Professor Trudi Jacobson introduced the class to Padlet. Padlet is a very powerful online tool that enables the sharing of thoughts and ideas in a form of wall posts or a bulletin board. It was my very first time using this free and very simple application. Professor Jacobson put up a question which required students to describe metaliteracy in six words and it was amazing how each individual's response updated on each computer screen right after clicking the "publish" button. Padlet is a great tool for teaching and learning! It also provides features that help users to be more creative; the use of pictures, videos and other forms of multimedia as well as designing the interface to suit users' preferences.
After doing a thorough research I came across a similar online tool called Popplet. This application like Padlet helps users update ideas they acquire from brainstorming exercises and present those ideas in a form wall notes. It is also very simple to use and incorporates various types of multimedia to engage users as well as those they make presentations to. Popplet also provides tools and features that help bring out the preferences of every user. It is a very simple yet creative application which can be used for group and individual projects.
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