Wednesday 4 June 2014

Padlet- A Wallwisher

Padlet which used to be called "Wallwisher" is a great application to create an online bulletin board that you can display information for any topic. you can choose from different colourful background options and then create a name for your topic. Students can get the relevant URL code and then as soon as they open the page, they can start writing comments and add photos. It can be used for different teaching purposes but I normally prefer using it as a revision tool after teaching one topic. It can be a vocabulary revision or a grammar production wall. You can even play games using it. Here are some examples:
As a post lesson activity, I asked my students to describe the best job and here is what I received from them. Sometimes they can add their own photos, which is humorous, but you can control what to include on your Padlet wall.
Here we did a kind of revision activity after working on Non-defining relative clauses. Students were given some time to think about a famous figure and then they started typing their sentences about these people. They also added some photos to make the wall more colourful.
Sometimes students think that they can control what they write and you may end up with unpleasant posts on your wall. For instance, here I asked them to write down why they learn English and we ended up like this.

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