Creating Links in Padlet Posts

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Today I want to write up a quick note about links in Padlet posts. 

Yes, you can just paste in a URL, and it will automatically turn the URL into an active link. But most URLs are pretty ugly, and they also take up a lot of space, and in tiny Padlet post, that can be a problem.

The better way to create a link is by using the text editor. In Padlet, however, the text editor is hidden until you actually highlight a bit of text. So, just highlight the text you want to turn into a link, and the text editor will appear, allowing you to format the text (bold, italics, etc.) and also to create a link using the link icon:

When you click the link icon, you will be prompted to paste in the URL. You can also just use the Control-K shortcut without clicking the link icon, and that will directly open the dialogue box for pasting in the URL:

Then, just click on Link, and you've got a link! Now you can continue editing your post, or you can click Publish.

Meanwhile, in Padlet comments you don't have access to the text editor. So if you want to make a link in a comment, just paste in the URL; that's the only option when it comes to comments.

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Daily Create: Two Roads Diverged

Inspired by Maha's response to the Daily Create prompt today, I made this little "map" of the asynchronous writing spaces that are taking shape around MYFest22, and this blog post has the links to go with them!

You can start at the Writer's Room webpage, which is part of the Ongoing (asynch) MYFest activities (there are lots, including these Daily Creates!).

Check out the MYFest Group Padlets that are already happening: there's a wonderful Music Padlet with lots of posts, plus we just started a Pets Padlet (yay pets, feathered, furred, or otherwise), and there's also a Check-in Padlet just to say hi. Plus there's a Bookshelf Padlet already full of books!

And/or......... you might want to have your own blog! 

if you are new to blogging, maybe you will want to try settting up your own Padlet to use as a blog. I've got tips on how to do that here: Getting Started with Padlet-for-Blogging. I usually use Blogger for blogging (as you can see here,), but I've also really been enjoying my own MYFest Padlet-Blog where I'm posting things daily (thanks to the inspiration of Daily Creates!); you can see it embedded below.

Of course, you might want to use WordPress or Blogger (lots of notes on Blogger here) to create a written record of your MYFest adventures. All blogging is good blogging!

And there's a blog network too! Here's a form where you can add your blog to the network (there are a few blogs there already!), plus there is a daily email digest if you want that brings you the day's posts from the network.

I hope people will want to use these opportunities to share and connect during MYFest. The whole idea with it being spread out in time (and space!) is that there is plenty of time to reflect on what's happening, to try out new experiments, to watch your learning grow over time. If you have other suggestions for how to make the writing spaces of MYFest more useful to you in your learning adventure, let me know! You can ping me at the Slack, or at Twitter (@OnlineCrsLady), or leave a comment here, or at the Writing Room page at the website. Many paths... just like in the prompt for today's Create!

Here's my Padlet-as-blog embedded below :-)

Daily Create: The Plains of Maug

Out they rode, the warriors two, Ies Maug eldest daughter,
Eldest daughter, eldest daughter of the queen,
And Nilt Maugiep, the eldest son,
Son the eldest of the queen, son the eldest,
They rode forth out onto the plains of Maug,
Sister and brother they rode.

They fought the dragon, mighty Smaug, 
They fought the dragon on the plains.
His claws came scraping, scraping hard across the plains,
Carving out the Bay of Austurquas,
Carving out the Bay of Nilt Raug
The claws of mighty Smaug, mighty Smaug.

Then Ies Maug thrust her sword deep into the dragon's eye,
Its eye, its gleaming evil eye
And Nilt Maugiep his sword deep into the other eye,
The dragon's other gleaming evil eye.
Shrieking, screaming in defeat it crawled away,
The dragon crawled beneath the waters,

Its body lies there till this day,
Clutching still its pearl of power,
The pearl of power in its claws.
Till this day the dragon lies beneath the waters,
'Tween the Lowlands of Old Maug Aum
And the isle of Aususilq so fair, so fair,
The isle of Aususilq so fair.

Note: This is for today's Daily Create. The dragon image is from OpenClipArt. I hadn't originally included the reference to the pearl of power but I added that after I chose the image.