As the Fall Quarter began, I found that Week One was getting everything set up, and Week Two was fixing everything that was broken! Both of these necessary tasks will certainly continue indefinitely, but I\u2019ve been working on adding collaboration and new ideas to my workload as I get deeper into some of the most compelling work I do here at Kalamazoo College.<\/p>\n
During casual conversations with faculty, I\u2019ve had a strong positive response to a particular tool I\u2019ve been talking about.\u00a0 Have you seen Padlet<\/a>? If you\u2019re familiar with Google Docs, Slack, Dropbox, etc., this is another tool in that family tree of applications. These applications serve as centralized, online locations for people to post information and work together in a commonly shared space. What I like about Padlet, and maybe its point of emphasis, is its loose, multimedia, visual orientation. The goal of Padlet is to let multiple users post text, audio, files, videos, etc., in a common digital whiteboard space relying on nothing more complicated than a web browser. It\u2019s very user-friendly and efficient in what it can do.<\/p>\n Here is a 2-minute tutorial from their YouTube page.<\/p>\n