One of my favorite new finds is a site called ThingLink. It allows you take an otherwise static picture and make it interactive through text, video, music, images, URLs, Twitter feeds and more!
Check out the one below that I created as an example for my students' My Future project. The picture is of Indiana University - Bloomington, and my "future plans" were to become a teacher. I had various requirements that the students had to research and then tag/link on their picture. I've included my rubric below too.
Check out the one below that I created as an example for my students' My Future project. The picture is of Indiana University - Bloomington, and my "future plans" were to become a teacher. I had various requirements that the students had to research and then tag/link on their picture. I've included my rubric below too.
| My Future Instructions and Rubric |
ThingLink also has a mobile version, which is very easy to use. I made the one below of my boys camping on my mini iPad in about 2 minutes - the hardest part was figuring out what information and pictures to link!
Ways to incorporate it into the classroom:
*Research a topic and include all findings on an image
*Give students a famous person and ask them to find facts or highlights to share
*Make an interactive bulletin board by taking images of student work and tag/link all of them to one main image
*Have students use their own devices to capture images and make them interactive
*Create a homework "help" image with tags/links to additional information, especially YouTube videos
*Annotate maps
*Use it as a station to give students additional information on a topic
One of the best features of ThingLink is you can sign up for an educational account which allows you to create student groups without the need of a student email. You can then follow and view all of your students' work from your account. And of course, ThingLink is free!
What ideas do you have?
Until next time...
*Research a topic and include all findings on an image
*Give students a famous person and ask them to find facts or highlights to share
*Make an interactive bulletin board by taking images of student work and tag/link all of them to one main image
*Have students use their own devices to capture images and make them interactive
*Create a homework "help" image with tags/links to additional information, especially YouTube videos
*Annotate maps
*Use it as a station to give students additional information on a topic
One of the best features of ThingLink is you can sign up for an educational account which allows you to create student groups without the need of a student email. You can then follow and view all of your students' work from your account. And of course, ThingLink is free!
What ideas do you have?
Until next time...
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