Padlet: A Practical Approach for Online Discussion πŸ’¬

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Hello there!
 
The web tool I'm going to share with you today is called "Padlet". Padlet is an easy and straightforward way to engage your students in online discussions. It is a digital board for you and your students to organize and save different types of content. It works like your own digital canvas that you can put whatever you like on it. You can upload a video, insert a link, record an interview, write your own text posts, or upload some documents, or you can invite students to engage with you and other classmates through moderating online discussion boards.

The first thing you need to do is to head over to Padlet website to sign up if you don't have an account or log in if you already have an account with Padlet, once you've signed in or created an account you'll be taking to a Padlet home screen, you can click on "make a padlet", and then you can begin to select between different layouts if you're not sure which layout you want to choose you can always click on the preview to see what the layout will look like. 



Then you need to give your Padlet a title and description, you can also choose an icon that will appear next to your padlet title. The address is a unique link to your padlet which you can use to invite people to join your padlet. 


                                                  
In the appearance section, you can customize your padlet feed, wallpaper, color scheme, and font. 



Lastly in the posting and comment filtering sections, you can adjust some settings about comments, attribution, user reactions, etc. 


In my opinion, Padlet is a very nice and useful web 2.0 tool. It encourages creativity and organization by giving students a chance to create padlets to collect different ideas, images, quotes, and more. Padlet allows teachers and students to feel more interconnected about the learning process.

 resource: https://blogs.umass
 
Here is the link to a Padlet I created to demonstrate the timeline of different language teaching methods. 

Made with Padlet

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