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Using Wakelet This School Year! | #ThisSchoolYear

Written by Wakelet | Aug 15, 2022 6:25:00 PM

It’s hard to believe it’s back to school season already, but we’re excited to see what this new school year brings for educators around the world!

 

You’re probably already planning, creating lesson plans, gathering resources, and reading up on this year’s curriculum. Whether you’re a teacher, librarian, edu coach, or administrator, Wakelet is the perfect addition to your toolkit this school year!

So, how can you kick start your Wakelet journey and save time so you can focus on what’s important?

Organizing Resources

Sharing important links, documents, resources, and videos that will enhance your students’ learning experience can be difficult. Sharing links with multiple students is difficult enough, but when the links are shared on a lifeless PDF that students don’t engage with and lose quickly, the process of sharing learning materials quickly becomes quite the challenge! Wakelet solves this problem by allowing you to create interactive and engaging collections that house all of your resources on a lesson-by-lesson basis.

Creating collections is quick and easy due to the super fast nature of adding links, images, PDFs, videos, and more! Create an unlimited amount of collections all for free, and separate them by grade, subject, topic, and lesson!

Students will be able to explore all of the resources you share with them in one easy-to-access place using just one link. Easy!

Looking for some inspiration? Check out this collection. Or get dive in to this template and create your own resource collections!

Streamline Parent Communication

Communicating with parents throughout the year can be a tough challenge, but Wakelet is here to help! One of the fastest ways to share information with a large group of people is newsletters, and Wakelet shines when it comes to helping you create a newsletter quickly!

Sending out one link with a bunch of information to parents is straightforward with Wakelet, and means all parents can keep up to date with your class and school. Newsletter collection can be kept private too, meaning only the parents who need to see your newsletters can.

Take a look at this awesome newsletter for some inspiration.

Get started with this template and start creating your own newsletters in seconds!

Enhance Student Engagement

When you’re up against the likes of TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and other social media platforms to keep your students engaged in their work, finding a way of keeping them focused is more of a challenge than ever. This school year, combat the social media platforms with the Wakelet Student Ambassador Program! Take on six unique tasks that improve key digital learning skills, and encourage student leadership! Each task focuses on one of the six C’s: communication, collaboration, curation, creativity, critical thinking, and citizenship. The program is self-paced and can be worked on throughout the school year. By the end of the program, students will have an awesome portfolio that shows off all of their hard work and skills!

The best way to get started with the program, is by creating safe and secure Wakelet accounts for your students using Classrooms on Wakelet. Simply connect your Google Classroom, Microsoft, or Clever account to get started!

Getting started on Wakelet with your students has never been easier 🔥

Save Time with Lesson Plans

With so much to focus on and so many tasks to complete, having to worry about creating lesson plans can quickly slip down your to-do list. But it doesn’t have to be that way at all! Putting lesson plans together using Wakelet is faster than ever, and we’re making constant improvements and updates to make the process even better too.

No matter what subject it is you’re planning, you can do it all in Wakelet! Gather resources, link to your curriculum, include worksheets, add in homework information, and even collaborate with other teachers to put together the perfect lesson plan in no time at all!

Check out this awesome lesson plan collection here, and get started on creating your own lesson plans with this template.

These four quick tips are perfect for kicking off the school year the right way. So what are you waiting for? Dive in and make this school year your best one yet!