Digital sticky notes are ideal for brainstorming ideas, mapping projects, and sharing resources. Below are some very good online sticky note tools to use in this regard. They are simple and easy to use and offer a wide variety of interesting features. Check them to learn more.
Miro also allows you to to digitize handwritten stickies enabling you to instantly convert photos and post-its into digital sticky notes, CSV, and Jira tasks. You can also invite your team members and work together on a board. Sticky notes can include, besides text, images and PDFs.
Other interesting features provided by Miro include over 200 pre-designed templates, an infinite canvas, presentation mode to present your sticky notes right from your board, built-in video chat for remote meetings, interactive features such as voting, a timer, and integration with several other tools such as Jira, Trello, Zoom, Slack, and more.
Padlet is an online bulletin board that you can use to collaborate, curate, and share digital content. The way Padlet works is simple and easy: users create padlets and add posts to them; others interact with publicly shared posts (e.g, through comments and reactions) or contribute by adding more resources. Posts can contain various types of digital content such as text, videos, audio recordings, screencasts, web links, graphs, images, GIFs, and many more.
Padlet offers a wide variety of interactive and collaborative features making it an excellent learning platform to use with your students. You can create padlet boards for your class and invite students to join. As a teacher and moderator, you have access to a number of admin privileges to help you make padlet a student-friendly and learner-focused environment where everybody takes part in knowledge building and sharing.
For instance, you can use profanity filters to block inappropriate content, deactivate comments and reactions, control who can contribute what, and many more. Additionally, you can create padlets that are accessible only to your students, see below to learn more about the different sharing and privacy options you can use in this regard.
Google Jamboard is a collaborative digital whiteboard that you can use to brainstorm, share ideas and collaborate both synchronously and asynchronously. Each jam consists of several frames and within each frame you can use Jamboard’s rich editing tools to draw, add various types of shapes, add sticky notes and text boxes, insert images from Google Drive or from the drive of your device, and many more. Best of all, Jamboard is simple, easy to use and free.
To start creating your jam, head over to jamboard.google.com and click on the plus sign button at the bottom right hand corner. Type in a name for your jam and use the editor to start working on it. Google Jamboard offers various ways to save your jams. Click on the ellipsis button at the top right corner and choose from the options there: You can download your jam as PDF, make a copy of it, or save it as an image.
A great feature I really like about Jamboard is the ability to save individual jams. If you have a jamboard that consists of multiple jams and you are only interested in a single frame you can click on it to save it as image to use on other platforms or in your presentations.
