What has amazing organization and
super friendly reminders? PADDLET! The wonderful Paddlet Team (Katie, Jeremy,
Kelsey, and Jessica ) introduced the class to the greatness of Paddlet. The
first thought that came to mind was, ok so we are going to learn how to organize
our stuff in a website? The thing is, Paddlet is so much more than just an
organizer, it’s another wonderful tool to have as a teacher. Paddlet can be
used to store lessons, videos, quizzes and more. As Katie, Jeremy, and Kelsey
walked us through the steps of creating a Paddlet I was thinking about
different ways I can make use of this tool. Not to mention that the emails form
the website are great! They tend to have a very welcoming message on them J coming back to how the
3 wonderful people walked us through the setting up process and the features of
Paddlet, they were incredibly helpful. Katie, Jeremy and Kelsey walked us
through the process of setting up our Paddlet account and they were all walking
around and helping us to make sure that we had a positive experience with
Paddlet. This was the first Tech Tools in Use we had and I have to say that
they paved the road for the rest of us. Jeremy, Katie, and Kelsey did an
amazing job at walking us through the main points of Paddlet and helping us
create our own.
I created a Paddlet for one of the
upcoming practice teach lessons I was about to implement in my placement (see
picture below.) I created mine on protein folding and the different aspects of
protein folding. I was inspired to create more units like this because of the
organization and easy access, not to mention that it is very user friendly. I
was able to use Paddlet to organize the ideas I had for future biology lessons.
I also learned that Paddlet can be used as a collaboration center. For example,
we made our own Paddlet example and the whole class posted theirs on a Paddled
board, easy access for all! When we were looking at each other’s Paddlet, this
made it so much easier to be able to look at everyone’s. This can be used in
the classroom as a brainstorm activity.
I am thinking of trying this with the
honors biology students. They can work in groups to create a skit of the
different phases of cell division. Then they will all post them in the class’ Paddlet
board so that everyone can have access. We will not only review the videos as a
class for review but individually, students will have access to the videos for
future studying. This is only an example of what I was inspired to try in the classroom as a result form the presentation. I also saw another group make use of Paddlet during theit own Tech Tools in Use presentation. This further goes to show what a great collaboration and organizational tool this is! I look forward to implementing my ideas of using Paddlet in the classroom, will update when I do to reflect on how it turned out :)
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