Revolutionizing Padlet: 8 New Features for Teachers

📌 Padlet is a digital tool for teachers to collaborate and incorporate multimedia in the classroom.

🔢 There are eight new updates in 2023 that revolutionize the way teachers use Padlet.

💡 One of the updates is the ability to create slideshows from existing Padlets for easier visualization.

⏯️ You can create a slideshow in Padlet with automatic advancing and customizable time span.

📱 You can share the slideshow as links, embed it on a website, or save it as images or PDF files.

🧩 Padlet now has the ability to group posts by sections, allowing for better organization and layout.

Padlet has several different layouts, including stream, wall, map, and grid, that allow for easy organization of content.

Sections can be added to a padlet to categorize information and group related posts together.

The new update of Padlet includes a search and filter feature, providing multiple ways to organize and find specific posts.

🔍 The Padlet search feature allows users to search for specific terms or comments.

🎨 Padlet offers a color filtering feature to quickly display posts of a specific color.

🔗 Padlet now has Google Drive integration, allowing users to directly upload files from Google Drive.

📝 You can connect your Google Drive to Padlet to directly select and upload files.

⏰ You can schedule posts in advance on Padlet to automatically appear at a specific date and time.

📅 Scheduling posts is useful for planning weekly discussions or posting unit materials throughout the year.

📝 You can save posts as drafts in Padlet, allowing you to resume writing later.

📊 Padlet now allows you to create polls to survey student thoughts and see real-time results.

🔒 You can close and reopen polls in Padlet to control student voting.

📢 The video discusses eight new features of Padlet that are useful for teachers, including the ability to share slideshows and allow real-time voting.

🏷️ Another important update is the availability to add tags and mentions, allowing users to tag specific individuals and get their attention.

🔒 There have also been updates regarding privacy and content moderation within Padlet.