Padlet Experience

A web-based project assignment was given for the educational technologies course. We worked together with three people for this task: Me, Çağatay Sönmez and Tuna Tamimoğlu.

What we had to do was create a padlet page and create a KWL chart there about a specific topic: What We Know, What We Want to Know and What We Learned.

As a team, we chose the topic of migration. We each wrote three entries in the What We Know section and supported them with images. Each of us chose different colors for his column so that these columns do not mix with each other. Then we each wrote three questions in the What We Want to Know section. Finally, everyone wrote the What We Learned section by referring to the results they found by researching their own topic. Thus, we have completed our small research project.

Above all, working as a team was both fun and educational. Padlet offers a very functional environment for collaborative writing. There is a common page and everyone can add and delete things there simultaneously, and you can follow what your colleagues are doing in real time.

You can reach our Padlet page here.

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