Peer Review

Wakelet is a basic curation tool that offers clear and efficient options. Wakelet is all about collecting content and organizing it in a simply, intuitive manner. It is a free tool that is very appealing to educators and their students. The clean interface of Wakelet allows educators to easily share a variety of resources directly with their students. Students can curate specified content and organize it for presentations or continued research.  

While the tool itself has no particular content, however, there are materials available on the site that demonstrate its use.  There is also an educator guide containing content for possible use in education and a section dedicated to education.

Storify content can be imported into Wakelet, as can movies, images, articles, hyperlinks, and text.  Users can easily edit their Wakelets, share them, and collaborate.

The Chrome plug-in allows users to quickly and easily save content from across the web.  Faculty and students can quickly develop assignments.  You can save materials from school libraries; project work is easy when multiple people can be pre-approved for work on a collection.  It integrates with Unsplash for royalty-free photos or users can provide their own.  An important strength is that the material can be used by faculty and students to create collections.

Users can annotate their collected information. Wakelet can be used for research assignments--curating content and then adding own notes to tell a story or share specific content. Wakelet can be used to organize research information as it collected. Wakelet could be used as a showcase portfolio. Users could create a digital curriculum vita with their Wakelet profile.  An assignment for students to create a Wakelet for a subject or theme can include an annotated bibliography for assessing the task.  

Wakelet allows instructors to create an assignment other than an essay to show what they know.  It can be used for journaling as well.  Additionally, viewers can post comments to Wakelet submissions.

Faculty and students can use Wakelet with ease.  

Chrome plug-in makes it easy to use.  There are iOS and Android apps for Wakelet.  It integrates with Google and with Office 365.  It has Unsplash integration for use of royalty-free photos, or users can upload their own photos.  Collaboration with others, even without signup is a new feature.  Collections can be copied by others.  Wakelets can be shared with users' social media and by QR codes.  Navigation is simple.  There are examples in the Gallery, and an educator's guide.

As with most cloud-based items, Wakelet uses cookies.  Users should be aware of this.  Educators should make this information clear to their students.

It is completely free to use.Clean, easy to follow navigation. The interface is intuitive and user-friendly. A variety of formats can be curated including URLs, tweets, videos, podcasts, images, articles, and more. It is available on Desktop and mobile-friendly with apps for both iOS and Android. Users created "Wakes" can be set to either private or public. Users can search others public Wakes and like, follow, and/or share their Wakes.