Enhancing Your Lessons with Padlet

Friday, January 23, 2026
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (online via Zoom)

In this workshop we will explore Padlet, a popular online tool that makes lessons more engaging through interactive bulletin boards. Students and teachers can post text, images, YouTube videos, links, audio recordings, video recordings, and more; these posts can present new information to students, serve as a form of assessment, and facilitate discussion, among other purposes. Padlet is powerful, free (with a basic account), and easy to use in both online and in-person classes. This workshop will go over the basics of Padlet, while also introducing those familiar with it to some helpful new features, such as “sandboxes” (collaborative whiteboards) and Padlet TA, which integrates Padlet with AI.

Workshop Learning Objectives:

• Create interactive bulletin boards and post content on them using Padlet

• Use Padlet boards to present information to students and assess student learning

• Take advantage of new Padlet features, such as sandboxes and Padlet TA

Presenter:

Andrew Shapira has been working in adult education for over 15 years. He has presented workshops on a variety of online teaching tools – Nearpod, Wayground (formerly Quizizz), Edpuzzle, ChatGPT, Google Arts and Culture, etc. – at First Literacy, MCAE’s Network conference, SABES, and elsewhere. He is the coordinator of the English Language Learning Program at the Newton Free Library.

This workshop is free to staff of all Massachusetts non-profit ABE and ESOL Programs.

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