PADLET IS SUPER!!!

I liked Padlet, because it’s a free application to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information for any topic. Easily create an account and build a new notice-board. You can add images, links, videos, and more. Settings allow I can make my wall completely open for public contributions, completely private, or moderated by me.  This is a device-agnostic tool, available on the web but also available for free as both an Android and iOS app. I can use it from any device or move between several devices and still access my work.

Using this tool collaboratively is very easy. The tool does not show which work is attributable to which student, however. I can use as a place to collect web quest links and information. By leaving the wall open to comments, solicit input, discussions, or viewpoints from students.

In Padlet I want to assign a student project where students choose their theme and design a wall around it. For example, students  can create a wall about their summer vacation. They can include pictures, audio or video, links, and other information to display and use as a new format for book reports. They can create a wall around these favorites or hobbies, use a wall for grammar or vocabulary words, create walls for debates or viewpoints, post assignments, reminders, or study skills on a wall. 

Hello, everyone!

I want to share with you with my views about the using various technologies in teaching English.

Using various technologies such as Blogs, Twitter, ARTstor, Prezi do the class more interesting and colourful. For example, Project-Based Learning using Blogs. I divide my students into groups, assign them a work project and ask them to present their work in a blog post. They’ll collaborate with each other, contribute their work and give feedbacks to other groups as well (through comments). With Blogging, educators improve group activities of students, critical thinking and peer assessment skills. Blogging is a great tool to implement Project-Based Learning. 

The use of Twitter is meant to encourage student engagement in the material by having them tweet about ideas, encounters or information about the art they’re studying in our class. I want them to construct learning and expressing the understanding of the ways in which art reflects fundamental human ideas, values, beliefs and individual course outcomes

ARTstor is an image database developed to support students, educators and scholars to have visual imagery to do a research and teaching.

Prezi is a presentation tool and a cloud-based presentation app that helps educators and students organize and share your ideas. Prezi is also a virtual whiteboard that transforms presentations from monologues into conversations: enabling people to see, understand, and remember ideas.

Thank you! 

Best,

Akzhan