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Grab your favorite beverage and join fellow English language teachers. We will spend this hour conversing about our lives, sharing classroom practices, learning, and making new friends. Let’s value virtual connections - join us to network, share, and learn! TESOL Live! is offered at no cost to TESOL members and nonmembers. Advance registration is required.
TESOL Live! is hosted by the TESOL Membership Professional Council (MPC) on the third Saturday of every month at 8am Eastern time.
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August's TESOL Live
Join us 16 August 2025
Chat with your global colleagues, share classroom practices, and build your network at this month's TESOL Live!
We will be joined by our featured guest, Hind Elyas, TESOL Leader, Educator, and Advocate for 21st-Century Learning and Global Professional Development. She will be discussing:
Padlet Power-Up: Enhancing Learning with Embedded AI Tools
This dynamic session invites educators, instructional designers, and trainers to explore the transformative capabilities of Padlet’s embedded AI tools and their potential to enrich digital learning experiences. Participants will be introduced to tools like I Can’t Draw, Talk for Me, Magic Padlet, Sandbox, AI Recipes, AI Assist, and the Discussion Board, and will engage in hands-on activities to discover how these features support differentiated instruction, foster creativity, and promote multimodal engagement. Through interactive demonstrations, attendees will learn to embed AI tools into lesson planning and delivery, catering to diverse learner needs through visual expression, voice-to-text, and AI-generated prompts. The session emphasizes practical classroom applications, encouraging participants to reflect on how AI can help co-construct knowledge with students while making learning more inclusive and interactive. Attendees will leave with ready-to-use examples, adaptable templates, and new strategies to reimagine engagement in both student-centered and professional development contexts using Padlet’s evolving AI toolkit.
About our Featured Guest
Hind Elyas is an English Instructor at Alfalak Company in Saudi Arabia, deeply committed to professional development. Her extensive leadership within TESOL International Association includes serving as Chair of the Professional Development Council and her current role on the Membership Council.She is also a member of the IATEFL Global Issues Special Interest Group. Additionally, Hind is Conference Co-Chair for kSAALT TESOL, the TESOL International affiliate in Saudi Arabia, and a founding member of TESOL Conferences (the TESOL International UAE affiliate).
Her past contributions include participation in the TESOL International Womentorship in ELT Professional Learning Network (PLN). Recognized for her expertise, Hind was selected as a TESOL International 2021 Leadership Mentoring Program Award recipient and served as a TESOL International Convention Ambassador. She further shares her insights as a guest speaker for the TESOL International "Know Your Learners" podcast series, addressing topics critical to the Association.