Padlet

I have been using Padlet since before covid. It has continued to evolve to meet the needs of the user. If I have questions the Padlet team is very responsive. All of the new features that they have added this year have been incredible. Padlet is my go to app for student collaboration, students sharing their process and getting feedback, sharing brainstorming in the classroom as well as with a large group(staff). As an instructional coach, I also have many teachers who are using Padlet to engage students. My new favorite is the sandbox - it is a great place to start to learn what students know when we are starting a new lesson,

Padlet is an app i never heard of. Its an app my ELA teacher told me of in 5th grade, i didn’t like using it because……who likes doing homework? But i had to do it to stay as an A+ student so I used Padlet pretty often so i know padlet a lot. Padlet is a good app but there is a glitch or something that happens when i click on padlet, a blank white screen comes, i even tried re-downloading multiple times but it never worked. There is a problem that needs to be fixed but it doesn’t matter to me anymore because school is about to end and i will never do homework again! I mean except for 6th grade and every other grade that is left. I wouldn’t need to use padlet anymore so i wouldn’t care. But…..padlet still needs to be fixed or whatever because there is a glitch happening right now. This is all I got to say for now to help padlet.

Make sure you save as you write, and often. I’ve lost progress SO many times because the app will glitch while I’m working (e.g., screen turns completely white, closes suddenly, freezes, etc.), which sometimes even happens on the desktop version. Other times it will take SEVERAL refreshes or retries before a card will actually show the latest version after a save, which has caused me to accidentally save over new versions with old versions on multiple occasions. I should really stop writing/editing text in the app directly and just copy/paste from Google docs instead, but I shouldn’t have to do that. There really needs to be a version history feature, a revert to previous draft feature, an autosave feature, or a way to retrieve cards that were deleted in error—because as it is now, once a version is lost, it’s gone forever. I love this app so much in theory. With this many bugs, though (and with my most recent lost save, which I’m still mourning) I’m just not sure I can keep using it.