Publish at April 20 2022 Updated December 14 2022
Wakelet is a free content storage platform that allows users to save, organize, and share that same content across the Internet. You can save any content you find on the Internet: articles, videos, social media posts, podcasts, images, notes, any digital content, etc.
Wakelet also allows you to collaborate with others (e.g., your students) on group collections to share ideas, inspiration and knowledge.
The Rivière-du-Nord (Quebec) School Service Center has a page on its google teacher support site, EduTic Support, entirely dedicated to the Wakelet tool. It features a set of video tutorials by Alexandra Coutlée.
In this video, Alexandra Coutlée discusses the options for customizing a collection, adding items, editing item descriptions and images, organizing items in a collection, and changing the layout of a collection.
In this video, Alexandra Coutlée discusses different ways to collaborate with Wakelet such as : inviting colleagues or students to collaborate in a list; inviting through a link; inviting through a code or QR code (possible even if we don't have an account) and inviting directly through email.
In this new video, Alexandra Coutlée discusses peer-to-peer or student-to-student collaborative spaces, classroom or student-to-student opportunities, and peer-to-peer sharing (and much more!).
N.B.: You can find, on EduTic Support, other videos such as Creating a Wakelet Account; Setting up and customizing your Wakelet profile; Organizing your public collections on your profile; Sharing your Wakelet collections; Wakelet and Screencastify; Wakelet Chrome Extension. You'll also find guides for teachers.
Goodie: Alexandra Coutlée's video "How to make a classroom podcast with Wakelet"
Primary school teacher in Malaysia, Goh Kok Ming offers us, in a article from the Wakelet blog, some examples of using the platform to design lessons with Ruben Puentedura's SAMR model.
Example 1
| S | Students read poems online on Wakelet. | A | Students use and organize images, videos, and other information about the poems to supplement the reading. |
| M | Students discuss and use multimedia resources to build knowledge and understanding about a specific topic related to a group's poems. |
| R | Students examine why the poems were written, build knowledge collaboratively in real time via the Wakelet space, and then make an infographic about what they found. Students share their Wakelet collections with others. |
Example 2
| S | Students use Wakelet to organize and build a presentation about a selected location, for example, KLCC Malaysia. |
| A | To supplement the reading, students incorporate interactive multimedia or integrate digital platforms such as Thinglink, Buncee, or Canva into the presentation to give a more engaging presentation in Wakelet. |
| M | Students design a digital travel map using Canva on KLCC Malaysia and integrate it into Wakelet. Additional information is stored and organized in Wakelet that can be shared publicly. |
| R | Students explore and integrate KLCC with Google Earth in Wakelet. Students study the style of this famous architecture and use various media sources to examine the style. Then students apply and design a new architecture in Wakelet collaboratively. |
Martha Bongiorno, Media Technology and Education teacher (Fulton County Schools, US), offers several ideas for using Wakelet. Here are a few.
In the end Wakelet proves to be more than just a curation tool, it's also a fantastic collaboration tool in a classroom. Students can organize their research and learning materials, create portfolios of their accomplishments, present their assignments and work, and most importantly, collaborate with their peers.
In fact, I invite you to put its use in perspective with Margarida Romero's (2015) Five Levels of ICT Use.
Another interesting point is the possibility offered to non-registered individuals to participate as "contributors" via the creation of a code. This will allow them to add content found on the Internet and will additionally have access to the additions of other contributors. However, they will not be able to delete or modify another person's additions.
- Gérald TIROT -
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