Learning Diaries

Padlet is an online virtual “bulletin” board, where students and teachers can collaborate, reflect, share links and pictures, in a secure location. There are 8 layouts to choose. Padlet is really easy to use and free. As digital natives, students will most likely love using padlet.  For this task, we were supposed to create a KWL chart on a wall that we created for a specific topic.  Two of my classmates and I have chosen 'Clean Water' as our topic. We thought it might be interesting and productive for us. Plus, there must have been tons of researches about this topic. And we were right. We didn't have any problem with what to write on our padlet. What exactly is a KWL chart? It stands for : K - Knowledge W - Want to know L - Learned It's a graphical organizer designed to help in learning. I think this tool is really useful for ELT because it makes your students think about what they know. When they realize how poor their knowledge is, they'll most probably become m...

Infographic is a visual representation of information or data. It's a collection of images, charts, minimal texts that give an easy-to-understand overview of a topic.  But what's the point of infographics? Well, they give the essential directly. They don't say it in a roundabout way, with tons of transitions, etc. They grab readers' attention and don't let it go.  Plus, since it's visual, it retains in memory longer!  They are really easy to prepare. I think infographics should be used as a tool in ELT because long texts only scare students and make the subject look too difficult to learn or to understand. Having a brief summary in the form of an infographic helps students to schematize the topic and get it better and faster.  I've made an infographic about how to survive online education for other university students as target public.  I used, again, Canva. :)  You can see my first infographic try below. Click  here  to see a clearer image....