Padlet: Perfect Tool to Engage your Students during Online Learning

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Hello, everyone! Welcome back to another post. How have you been? Hope you are all doing great. 😄

Readers, most of you have known that one of the teachers' jobs as the facilitator of learning is to hold the students' attention during the class. In order to keep the students engaged, motivated, and enthusiastic, teachers have to provide the students varied classroom activities. To do so, teachers may benefit from an online tool called Padlet. What is it, actually?  👀

Padlet is an online tool that allows different people to interact and collaborate in real-time. The appearance of Padlet is a kind of discussion forum where everyone could post text, pictures, etc. 

Source: https://www.bookwidgets.com/blog/2017/08/30-creative-ways-to-use-padlet-for-teachers-and-students

To make a discussion forum using Padlet, sign up to its website here: https://id.padlet.com/, then you can begin making your Padlet by choosing one of the provided layouts. To help you understand more about the use of Padlet in the classroom, you may have a look at my CALT classmates' teaching demonstration here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r9RcBKfD-XE-GC-JxjMZonKS6FrQXhRy/view (Group 1-4). 

Here is a short summary of how each group applies Padlet in their teaching:

  • Group 1 teaches Degrees of Comparison. Each student is asked to compose one sentence and use degrees of comparison in the sentence. The sentence should be posted individually on Padlet.
  • Group 2 teaches Giving Opinion. Group 2 uses Padlet to present 3 questions. Each student is asked to give an opinion on each question and post the opinions on Padlet.
  • Group 3 teaches Animals. Group 3 uses Padlet to ask the students to share a picture of their favorite animal. In addition, Padlet is used as a guessing animal exercise in which students have to mention the name of the animal as well as the kind of the animal (air, land, or air animal).
  • Group 4 teaches Degrees of Comparison. Group 4 uses Padlet to attach all of the learning materials, making them accessible and downloadable. The materials posted on Padlet include PowerPoint slides, YouTube video link, Microsoft Word exercise, and Kahoot quiz link.

Hopefully, this post could help you engage your students during online learning by using Padlet. I'm looking forward to hearing how you implement Padlet in your class! See you in the next post, everyone! 😃


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