hi and welcome back to my channel if you're new here I'm so glad that you
found me my name is dr. hempel I'm also known as the language lady and I am an
English as a second language specialist in the state of Pennsylvania I teach
eighth grade and I've been teaching English as a Second Language Learners
for over 20 years I post weekly videos on tips strategies and resources for ESL
teachers across the globe today I'm really excited to share with you an app
that helps with reading writing skills and it's called padlet I think you'll
really enjoy this app and I'm going to walk you through how to set it up your
classroom and just little tips and tricks that will allow you to set up a
pallet in a way they'll be engaging for your students
if you're new to padlet pellit is a great source for gathering sharing and
modifying ideas to your students as well as among your students with each other
one of the wonderful things about padlet is that you can upload links to
educational websites games activities worksheets I mean the the choices are
infinite but there are all different types of choices that your students and
different things you can expose to your students so that they're engaged in
their activity I'm gonna link everything in the description below so that you can
follow along with me as I take you step-by-step through this tutorial one
thing I must mention is that you must already have either a Google account or
G suite for education a Microsoft account and also or an Apple account if
you don't already have a D suite account for education make sure you speak with
an administrator to get the school set up so that your students are able to log
in join and interact with the padlet and join the specific padlet that you have
created for them to begin with padlet you're gonna go to the padlet website
and click on the pink link to sign up as I mentioned before you're going to log
in with one of these accounts because I already have a Google account I'm gonna
use that account once you're in padlet you have a choice whether to make a
padlet join a padlet or choose from a series of templates that have already
been created that you can also model your padlet
after and also to upgrade because under this type of padlet that is free the
free version only gives you up to three padlets
the upgrade version is eight dollars and twenty five a month and will give you
unlimited pamphlets in the case of this I'm going to show you how to make a
padlet there's eight different styles of padlet designs that I can use and this
I'm just gonna click on the grid layout and as you can see it's already
pre-populated with its own background but I can change that later and for
example let's say I'm going to be doing a padlet on conjunctions and I want them
to hear a link or watch a link from a YouTube video so I can just write an
example of a description that I'm gonna have them do I can choose an icon I
don't have to it's up to you if you want to do that if a lot of students do like
that and they think that it's a lot of fun also you can change the wallpaper
design there solids have gradients you also have textures and patterns and then
you also have pictures for the TIC for the sake of this I'm just gonna use the
thanks teachers and then I'm ready to start my padlet so what I do is I click
on next and I can start posting and remember I can fill up this entire page
with a plethora information or I can make it as simple as just linking one
question posting one question and having students respond when I began with
padlet I didn't know how I wanted to start it and I didn't know what I wanted
to look at so one of the nice features is that there are template padlets that
you can model yours after and you can even copy the actual post that they have
within their padlet and then you can edit it once you bring that into the
padlet so let me show you how to do that in order to take a template that's
already been created and modify it for your use you're going to click on
gallery and then you're going to find a plethora of different templates that
have already been created for the instance of this activity that I'm doing
on conjunctions for my students I'm gonna go ahead and choose this KWL chart
and then I'm going to click on remake and then because I want to copy not only
the design which is the background and the template I also want to copy the
post so that I can edit them once I click Submit it's going to start
remaking it in progress and then it's going to direct it towards my padlet
which I can actually edit so what are the things I can do is I'll click on the
pencil icon and I can change it so I can say the conjunctions are the letter the
words but and or something like that I mean this is something that your
students will fill out what they want to know and what's really nice is that they
can see each other's responses and look at what each other thinks about
conjunctions and then what they've learned and it's a great tool that again
fosters that collaboration but it also lets you know what your students are
aware in terms of whatever topic that you're touching upon that day I also
mentioned earlier that you include clips and links and just allow your students
to be able to be directed to other website so I'm going to use an example
of a website that I use with my students and show you how you can clewd a clip or
a link inside padlet so in the case of the conjunctions if I want to include a
link to conjunctions this is the conjunction song that I want so I'm
gonna copy it and I'm going to click on the link icon and click on the link and
press save and immediately they're going to be able to see the link to the song
within that post the other things that I can do is I can upload documents files
that I already have I can also go to Google and if I want to have a picture
let's say if I want a picture on conjunctions I click on conjunctions and
then it will show me different files that it automatically will appear
another thing I can do is if I want to take a picture maybe I want my camera I
want to say something to them or record myself with the directions that I want
them to do they'll be able to see that as well within the padlet please comment
below any ideas that may be running through your
already is how you think you would like to utilize paddle it in your classroom
and if you're already using padlet please share what are the fun activities
that your students really enjoyed perhaps what template you liked and what
type of activities geared towards reading speaking listening and writing
you have views that really have changed the game in your classroom thank you so
much for tuning in I appreciate all your likes and your comments please keep them
coming they really do help me a lot and I will see you next week for another tip
on resources strategies to meet the need of your English language learners thank
you and I'll see you next week