Some possibilities you could include: Best fast food restaurant, Strongest Avenger, Who will win the Oscars?, How many medals will each country get in the Olympics (using the “Grading” reaction). You can arrange a padlet ahead of time with simple pictures, then use a Reaction function (thumbs up/down or stars) to have students vote on what they think. Using the Stream Padlet, you can set up a simple class voting mechanism that’s sure to get students talking. As a bonus, you can check their accuracy with writing in past tense! In the content box, they can write a brief paragraph explaining why the date is significant to them. Then classmates can guess who is who, and have some fun with who’s oldest and who’s youngest.įor adults, who may not want to share the year they were born, you might instead prompt them to share a significant date in their life: the day they got their first job, a favorite vacation, the birth of their first child, and so on.
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If the class is full of kids, you might have them share their birthday in the title box, and a baby picture in the content box. The timeline padlet is a great way for students to see what was happening and when it was happening in each other’s lives. For those teachers who have a more homogeneous class, consider having students share “Dream Vacation Spots,” or you can zoom way in and keep it local with “Favorite restaurants in town.” With a little creativity and knowledge of your class make-up, you should see endless possibilities working with the map padlet. If you need a little more, you can ask them to share one or two tidbits about their town. Students can pin their hometown, then using the image search function, add an iconic picture that all the locals recognize.
The map padlet is a favorite for many teachers, especially when they’ve got students from all over the world. Today we’ll take that broad concept and dig deeper into some specific ways you can get started. Padlet has come up a number of times on the TESOL blog, * and even once before as a recommendation as an icebreaker.
Teachers have come to love its flexibility and collaborative nature, along with the fact that we can see everything the students are doing from a bird’s-eye view. There’s text, of course, but also students can insert gifs, add screen recordings, record their voice, draw pictures, and much more. Because it’s virtual, students can share in multiple modalities to showcase their thinking. It allows anyone to access a page (or you can set privacy controls) and share their thoughts, ideas, and experiences on a collective board. Padlet has settled itself into the edtech community as a solid and reliable virtual bulletin board. There are lots of ways to mix things up, and if you have access to Padlet, your students can have a lot of fun sharing about themselves. As we settle into January, many of us are starting a new semester with new students, and maybe our old “Find Someone Who” icebreaker is just feeling a little stale.
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