Joining Wakelet is simple. Once you go to the home page of Wakelet, you can click one of the tabs across the tops (I selected the For Educator tab) or just click the Sign up, it's free! green tab in the center of the page. Once I clicked on the Educator tab, I signed up via Google. You have the option to sign up via Google, Microsoft, Facebook, or by email. Once you are in, the site prompts you to select a minimum of two images/topics that interest you. Once that is done, you continue and are ready to create a collection. Step by step visuals of this process are displayed below.
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Wakelet is also a wonderful free resource to use within a school. As Richard Byrne pointed out in his video, you can add collaborators to a collection of your choice. If you are a librarian and are collaborating with teachers on a research topic or project for students, this would be a great way for everyone to share findings and resources. Wakelet is available as an app as well, so you can always have access at your fingertips. The librarian and teacher can then share the resources with students via the link. If your school district's technology department allows it, you could create collaborative student Wakelet pages where you are the head administrator. Students could collaborate on an assignment, while you would have access to monitor their progress and give feedback. By the teacher creating the Wakelet for the students and adding them as collaborators, she has the ability to make sure the page is closed to the public and being used with fidelity. As a teacher, it would allow me to see the process students use when completing an assignment and how I could conference with them about their work and collaborative abilities. I feel that Wakelet can be a useful tool for librarians, teachers, and students by allowing them another way to work collaboratively via a digital platform.
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Byrne, R. (2007, January). Free Technology for Teachers. Retrieved October 13, 2019, from https://www.freetech4teachers.com/
Byrne. (2019). How to get started using wakelet. Retrieved October 13, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59_2iSENXEQ&feature=youtu.be&disable_polymer=true
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I had not heard of Wakelet prior to this semester, but I started using it a month ago and I love it. I used it to pull resources together for this week’s blog post, as well as my final project in an education class. I’m planning on using it for the upcoming curation assignment. I use both the web version and the app, and I like that you can add a shortcut on the tool bar on the web version to add that resource to your page rather than having to copy and paste. I like that you mentioned seeing students’ process in completing assignments - I hadn’t thought about using it that way. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteOh wow! This looks like a great tool for curation projects like we were reading about a couple modules ago. Not to mention a great way to curate and share resources for a research project, like you explained. I love that it has practical uses for students AND teachers. Thanks for sharing this!
ReplyDeleteGreat information! I have never heard of Wakelet up until this course. I have gone back and forth with this as my curation project and found it to be a great tool to share information back and forth. I love the steps you created to show how easy it can be to use.
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