Padlet

I have done some testing of Padlet, which we tested in the ONL-course and also in my university's pedagogical course.

The map-tool seems nice for introductions. I could use that in my educational program when I first meet the students so that we can get a feeling for where people come from in Sweden. The Time-line could be used for age but this seems a bit irrelevant in many cases and slightly intrusive. In a subject like history I image that it'd be a great tool. I didn't find the other tools so interesting but I guess they are ways to organise the content a little bit.

It's a quite simple collaborative tool but I'm not sure what happens if two people edit the same object at the same time.

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