Wednesday, May 16, 2018

A Useful Mobile App for Teachers, Padlet!

taken from here
Padlet is an online ‘post-it’ or ‘bulletin’ board, which can be used by teaches and students collaboratively. Padlet allows you to insert images, videos, and links to your ‘Padlet notes’ and you can share share a link to your Padlet with any student, class or teacher. You can also modify your Padlets any time you want (edit or move).
                                                    
Padlet is free and user-friendly! What’s more, it can be used with any Internet ready device. If students have the Padlet board, they can immediately check all the ideas and posts gathered on the teacher board.

How can Padlet be used in language classrooms?

It is a great source both for teachers and students and can be implemented in hundred ways in language classrooms (you can create one class Padlet at the beginning of the school year and share all links throughout the year). Let’s see the best activity that can be done in classroom via Padlet;

-It can be used to brainstorm on a topic or project. Here is the Padlet that I’ve created as an example (yes, you can embed your Padlets into webpages). I think this one is the best option for teachers!
Good news! You can also record your voice if you use a Firefox or Chrome web browser.

Here are the other ideas to use this tool in class;

-You can ask students about what they understand or remember from the previous lesson.
-You can share a picture or the beginning of a story and want them to predict the story, or you can have an interactive storytelling!
-Make students prepare and present their posters on Padlet where they can add images, videos, links, and information.
-You can use Padlet also for book reviews. Students will love it!
-Students can upload a picture from their computer and explain it by adding every type of notes on it (this list goes as far as your imagination).

Apart from the classroom activities;

-It can be used as a student portfolio, and can be shared with parents!
-It is also a good one for formative assessment.

Looking for more information about Padlet? Do not hesitate to ask your questions as a comment for this post.

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