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Padlet

   

    Padlet, an online tool that is used to aid education, is an online canvas of some sort. You start with a blank page and you choose what you want to add and how you want to present it. You can use it to inform your students, to do off-class activities/homework or to send them necessities for your class. In the end, how you use padlet and what you do with it is up to you, the only thing thats stopping you is your imagination.

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