Creating the right space with Wakelet
You need to check out the Wakelet Launch Party! Wow, talk about an awesome launch! Great work from the Wakelet team and a very exciting launch. Launch party!
For anyone that has been using Wakelet, you already know how many amazing possibilities there are for using Wakelet! For creating a space to connect with educators, students, families and more, Wakelet offers many choices for exchanging ideas and providing content and more. Earlier this summer, Wakelet announced the capability to collaborate in real-time, enabling educators and students to work together and provide feedback right away.
In my classroom, Wakelet has been a way for my students to share their project-based learning (PBL) products, to gather resources for our classes and to even use as a digital portfolio. For me, Wakelet has been a space to gather collections of resources for topics of interest, for curating ideas from book studies, for sharing archives of a Twitter Chat and much more. Now, the Wakelet team has added even more to help educators promote student engagement, by providing a collaborative space for students to work together and foster collaboration regardless of where learning is taking place. Check out the new Spaces!
What are Spaces?
Spaces is the newest feature from Wakelet that enables you to create a “space” for adding collections, organizing your current collections and inviting others to join and collaborate. Spaces can be a private or a public area. Spaces “ adds a whole new level of organization and collaboration to your Wakelet experience.”
Simply click the plus button on the new bar in the left of your home area to create a new Space. It is easy to start creating collections on any topic. My first “space” was to place all of my Twitter Chat collections which makes it great for organization and to be able to share with others. Create a space and invite your students, other educators, and anyone else to contribute and add collections of their own.
What I love about this new feature is that I can now organize my current collections into Spaces which makes it so much easier to find what I am looking for. It enables me to create powerful learning environments for my students and for all of us to be able to collaborate like never before! I have needed this capability for a while because I have a lot of collections!
As an educator, you can create a Space for each class or subject you teach, a project, a PLN community, your own professional learning, or just to organize your collections however you want!
Getting Started with Spaces
Definitely easy to create a space!
Click the + button on the new bar in the left of your home area to create a new Space. Want to add an image and name for your space? Just click the + button, choose an image from the gallery or upload your own, add a name to your space and then click “create.” You now have a Space where you or your students can collaborate, share resources, build a library full of content, organize a research project, or for you to organize your collections.(this is amazing!)
Want to share Podcasts? Blogs? Books? You name it, Spaces is the place to do this!
There is no limit to the number of collections that you can create in your Spaces. Collections can also be moved between spaces. What? How awesome is that!
I always say, the 3 dots are your friend. Click on the dots while you hover over one of the collections and select “ move “ and then decide which Space you want to move that collection to. Talk about fast organization!
Ready for more awesomeness?
It’s not just a space for you, it can be a space to collaborate! Invite colleagues, PLN, global connections and students to share their own collections in that space! Simply click the “members” button and you can invite others to join by sharing a code, a link or through email. Once they receive the invite, they click the link and are now joined with you in that space. Now everyone can add their own items to the collections in that space, how cool is that? Or create new collections of their own!
Sharing and learning together!
Just like collections, spaces can be for your own work, or you can make them available to the public. Looking for ideas for global collaboration? Why not have your students work together on gathering resources, brainstorming ideas, or whatever they need! Decide on the visibility of the space, private or public, and remember that you can change your Space back to private at any time.
Ideas for Spaces
1. Curate resources for your classes
2. Create spaces for students to use as a digital portfolio.
3. Invite colleagues to share their resources on a common topic!
4. Project-based learning: Great way for students to share resources
5. Station rotations? It could work! Create a space and add collections for each of the activities. Try it and let me know how it goes!
There are so many more ways to use Spaces. What are your ideas?
Create your first Space now and share the ways that you plan to use this awesome new feature from Wakelet! I cannot wait to see what my students think!
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Originally published at http://rdene915.com on August 27, 2020.
