Padlets! ~ Could it be a waste of time?



Hi everyone, today’s post is about a padlet assignment for my Instructional Technologies and Materials Design in ELT course. Me and my 4 friends created a padlet about endangered animals on padlet.com, together. Every member of our group participated and I think the outcome is quite good.

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We did our research on the information about endangered animals, causes of why they are endangered, possible solutions and we conducted a survey as well. I found some information about spesific species and shared a graph showing some species’ numbers.
Creating a padlet was easy and useful; it helps the users to learn the information in an enjoyable way. You can write anything you want, share photos or videos, change the style of your padlet, etc. I used all of these methods and I didn’t find it difficult at all. I think it could and it should be used in the classrooms, mostly in the language classrooms. The learners, especially young learners, can be distracted easily but creating a padlet for their lessons would solve this problem. They would be eager to learn. 


We're in 21st century and technology is a must and as it's already being used in the schools, I think padlets should be used too. Padlets can help the students to express themselves way better. Only listening to grammar rules is not the way to learn a new language.

An example for a padlet:

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However, in my opinion, there is a shortcoming of padlets. You can only share 1 single video or photo in every post. While doing our assignment we didn’t like this feature and we had to create many posts in order to put necessary photos. Other than that I personally liked the idea of padlet very much, and I think my friends did too.


You can read and check out our padlet from here.




The sources I used while doing the padlet:

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