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Wakelet

Wakelet is an online platform that allows teachers and users to gather, organize and share multimedia resources (text, images, videos, podcasts, songs) with students, colleagues and learning communities.

Where is the tool used?

Wakelet is used for blended and in person learning, webinars, distance education, flipped learning, and other online learning activities in schools.

How to use the tool?

Wakelet gives the possibility to create a collection with text, links, images PDF files, tweets video and more. The collections can be added to Google Classroom or Teams and used as resources so teachers and students can organise a mix of content for easy access and work collaboratively.

Specifics for SEL contexts

Wakelet can be used for SEL training by:

Creating a blog
Curating a collection to explore
Making global connections
Writing a collaborative story
Gathering ideas or collecting reflections on a project
Opening many resources collections to the students

Learning activities

Delivering trainings/workshops: Creating a choice board for effective icebreakers that can warm up a conversation, gather ideas, and ensure that everyone is engaged in a session. Creating lesson plans and digital portfolios
Give audience the chance to be involved: using a presentation link everyone can connect, watch and answer to your questions, share works, collect reflections on a project, share work on G Suite.
Verify knowledge: using quiz competitions it’s possible to set questions to verify the knowledge, explain a topic or summarize a story using 5 GIF’s challenge. Every activity aims at providing students with opportunities to deepen their learning.
Collaborate with users: all users enrolled in the course can interact using open resources encouraging the learning. An educator can record a podcast and the students can easily open it in minutes.
Write report cards during or after the lessons