Teaching Online with Primary Sources

Your Padlet example for the drafts of the Langston Hughes poem really helped me see how it could help students organize their thoughts and analyze an actual primary source. Also, what a great suggestion (and a generous one) that teachers copy the example to their own Padlet accounts, delete your students' responses, and make it work for their own students! I know Padlet is a hot tech tool right now in education, but you have used it in a unique and effective way to analyze text. Thank you so much, Ann Canning !

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6 - 8 9 - 12 English/Language Arts Social Studies/History Padlet online learning

Thank you Mary Johnson ! We have had great fun and success with this Langston Hughes padlet in our PDPI classes. I created one about Teddy Roosevelt for NCHE last year but haven't used it with a real live audience! :) https://padlet.com/ann16/fnggm51fze Padlet is a very easy tech tool for teachers to use. The remake option which allows one teacher to copy another teacher's Padlet and then customize it for themselves is a great feature.

I was unfamiliar with padlet until it came into multiple discussions during the NCHE conference. Thanks for the examples and we will definitely have use for padlet in our TPS sessions.

Here is a post, with a video tutorial, that describes how students might use Padlet to collaborate on a primary source analysis.

Tech Tool: Primary Source Analysis with Padlet

I'm going to try this out this week. I created a Padlet on the Map of the Entire World (1507, Waldseemuller) as a review activity for my APWH students. https://padlet.com/jberge/70d54cflztir. Thank you for applying the QFT to a remote learning activity! I'm anxious to try it.

Jill,

It was your post in the TPS Basics Tutorial #11 this week that gave me the inspiration to create a Padlet version of the QFT using the primary source you selected, Global Bully. And then in a very short time, you did a remake of that Padlet and turned it into the Waldseemuller Map one. And this all came together because of the work Sarah Westbrook is doing to integrate QFT with TPS. It is so beautiful when our ideas come together in a new synthesis.

I want to point out here for others who may read our posts that Padlet does have that wonderful "Remake" feature and anyone who has a Padlet account can remake the QFT Padlet and use it as a template for your own QFT using a primary source.

You are the first person to use this template and I am eager to hear what works well and what changes we should make. Thanks again for taking up the torch!

--Ann 9 - 12 Social Studies/History QFT

One of the webinars coming up this week from the TPS Western Region is on "Primary Source Padlet Strategies," with Laura Israelsen and Michelle Pearson presenting. Check out the entire line-up HERE!

Here is another Padlet example. It was inspired by a post Melissa Lawson made in our current TPS Basics class. The Tutorial included instructions for using the Hide and Seek inquiry strategy developed by Stacie Moats and Cheryl Lederle back in 2014. Melissa found an engraving in PUCK that she thought would work with her context lessons surrounding the Romantic Era writers. We took it one step further and made an interactive padlet that other teachers can remake and use with their own students during the Covid19 crisis. Feel free to use this padlet as is after you remake it or change out the primary source and the Teacher's Guide for a different primary source that you are currently using.

Thank you Melissa for pushing us forward with a new primary source to use with a former inquiry teaching strategy!

--Ann

Thanks for this Ann. I thought I would also add Sarah Westbrook 's new Padlet template and screencast guides for using the Question Formulation Technique to analyze a primary source. There's more on this at https://rightquestion.org/remote-learning-resources/

- Katy

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