Have you heard about Thinglink? I’m not sure where I first heard about it, but I recently was invited by Thinglink to give it a try. From what I did so far, it looks like another presentation site based on images. When I went to the site, signed up, and logged in, I was stuck. There was no place to click to move forward. Finally after some frustration, I hit the back page button and found on the home page the button for Learn More. That took me to a page that had a button for Create. There I was able to move forward and create a page. I uploaded a picture I took on our afternoon nursery trip. Since I had previously written a poem about an amaryllis, I recorded it on Soundcloud and was able to link it to the picture. I also linked an information page about the amaryllis.
I embedded the image here, but the links do not embed. You have to click on the link to go directly to the Thinglink page to get to the links.
Thinglink allows for adding students. I am interested in trying this out with my students, perhaps on a research project or to write about a book they’ve read. Have any of you used Thinglink with students? I’d love to hear about your thoughts and ideas.
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Isn’t this an amazing digital took, Margaret?! I need to play around with it this summer a bit to see how I can use it in my classroom. I’ve shared a link to using blogging for book clubs.
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Thanks for sharing this new tool. I don’t know too much about it. This summer, I’m going to do lots of exploring and think about how I might use different tools with students next year.
Hi Margaret, I wrote about PLNs today. Not sure it’s exactly what you’re looking for here, but I thought I’d share anyway! 🙂
I love using ThingLink. And while I have not had my students create a ThingLink, I posted this week about a ThingLink I created a few weeks ago for my teaching peers.
I thought I would finally share my blog and hope that this will encourage me to get out there more with posting to the bigger world wide web!
http://coachbsreflections.blogspot.com/
Margaret, this is so neat. I think I once saw someone do this with their students and samples of their work. Something new on my list to try. I forgot to link up last week, so I added my post on Prezi this week. Your poem was lovely by the way, the image and words were beautiful together.
Thanks for linking up, Betsy. Your Prezi inspired me to try this with my students. I’ve used it myself and found it difficult, but I’m sure my tech-savvy kids will love it.