#PottyPD with Wakelet

The #WakeletWave has taken over! 

Last summer, I was looking for a way to archive one of my favorite twitter chats with a new tool since I couldn't use Storify anymore.  After a quick Google search, I found Wakelet and I was hooked!  I started using to archive the #PD4uandMe chats that I co-moderate with my friends Teresa Gross &   Emily Francis.  Once I started using Wakelet for archiving Twitter chats, I realized I could do SO much more with it! It also turned into my FREE alternative to using Smore for newsletters.  Smore is still a great resource, but I didn't want to spend the extra money to purchase an educators account.  So now I use Wakelet for just about anything I would curate for sharing or research purposes.  Honestly, I use it more now than I do Pinterest. That's saying a lot!  
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#PottyPD

My favorite way to use Wakelet is for #PottyPD! Sounds crazy, right?  The first time I heard of this was on Twitter (shocker, I know). There are lots of different forms of this "captive audience" professional development out there like Learning in the Loo, Bathroom Briefs, etc. ​ Here's a great post below from Tara Martin about this school bathroom PD craze!  ​I use the plastic flyer stands to display a PDF visual (created in Google Drawings) in all the bathrooms and change it out once a month. I've had the same experiences as Tara mentions in her blog post.  My visual is basically a teaser though. The links and more details are on the Wakelet version that I share through Google Classroom and email to the teachers. So there's a lot of GSuite EDU app smashing going on here! 

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I also add a 3 question Google Form to the bottom of it with a "duty free lunch" give away to encourage others to read it & try new things! I may not have money to give away really cool things, but I can give the gift of time !

From Tara Martin's Blog linked here.

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Check out my 2018-2019 #PottyPD Collections here! 

Give Wakelet a try today! 

There are SO many ways to use Wakelet, I've only covered one today.  Check out this blog post for a Getting Started Guide.  You can also follow me once you create an account to see how I use it. Look at the people I follow or just click "Explore" to see how the rest of the world uses it.  Join the #WakeletWave today! 

Want to learn more about #PottyPD, check out the podcast version with Kasey Bell from Shake Up learning! 

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