Bring still images to life: Thinglink.com does that.

2/14/2013

Student created 20 mins after post

I have known about Thinglink.com for at least a year. But it has been blocked at school and I never really saw a need to push the issue. However, yesterday I was thinking about a mini lesson that I do on Middle Ages art for our Middle Ages Quest (see it here) and realized that several kids will be out when I begin that lesson next week. As I was wondering how to handle that, Thinglink came to mind. I had seen it but never used it. I emailed the District Office and they opened Thinglink.com in about 20 minutes. So, today I spent about an hour making the two below. I do think I will get better and faster at it, but I also have a feeling that I will not need to do many more, as the students will take over.

I posted a short blog on my school website about Thinglink, and within 40 minutes a student showed me the one above. He had used google earth (which I used with them yesterday to tag different Cathedrals all around Europe for the quest) and he made one for his blog post as a Knight. He is writing his blog about taking a pilgrimage to a Cathedral in first person. If he built one based on a post without any pushing...most students will love using it and all I have to do is show them how and pick out the best. They rock!

A few things to remember:
-Free
-Easy to upload any photo or use flickr photo's
-In edit just click and add text, links, images, podcasts and even youtube's directly in the image

Thinglink.com is fun and a great way to bring images to life. Not to mention a great teaching tool for our visual students. If you make one, leave a comment and a link to your Thinglink.

Cheers, Garth

Click all the buttons for a feel of what you can do.

17 Comments

Allison Dennison link

2/14/2013 08:55:03 am

Thanks for this information. What a great site. I could really use it in my Spanish classes when we study other countries!

Leah LaCrosse link

2/14/2013 10:28:00 am

So, the implications in science are tumbling around in my mind. I could see my students interacting with a series circuit diagram, image of a lab design, picture of an auditorium to explore sound...
Thank you!

Garth

2/14/2013 10:36:52 am

Leah, yes endless ideas and ways to use this. Not sure about IPad. Mike and I plan to see lots of these in the next few weeks on kids blogs. They really like to Photoshop themselves into the historical images and now being able to add this.....watch out. Looking forward to see you at #craftedu soon.

Leah LaCrosse link

2/14/2013 11:27:51 am

First try! http://www.thinglink.com/scene/358804047798468610Not too bad.
The iPad entry of links was not friendly! I switched over to a keyboard and used the keyboard commands (command + v) to drop in the web links.

Leah LaCrosse link

2/14/2013 11:29:50 am

I am looking forward to #craftedu! Great combination. ;)

Garth link

2/21/2013 06:36:16 am

Made a quick tutorial on how to make these: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cInroXV2vV Hope it helps. If you make one leave a link in the comment section for others to see.

Kerry Hale

2/24/2013 04:15:08 am

Thinglink is great... I am beginning to imagine all ways this can be useful to my future students in art classes. From frescos and paintings to architecture and photography - Thinglink can be a valuable tool for students to understand the many aspects of art (and history for that matter!).

Amanda Halman

4/18/2013 03:21:00 am

This seems like a really great site. I feel like for students who are absent often or students who are extremely visual and have a hard time during auditory instruction this would be awesome. Putting up a historical image and capturing their vocab and other important ideas while they're still getting the imagery seems to be a great connection.

Danielle Zampelli

4/28/2013 08:06:56 am

This is really cool! I was thinking that I could upload a picture of a kitchen and have different appliances and pieces of equipment labeled so that students can learn their uses in FCS!

Jeremy Husted link

5/1/2013 05:50:36 am

First off, I am loving Thinglink. It's an easy add-in to just about anything you teach and I think it works great. But secondly, I can't fathom why your district would have ever blocked it. Do they block everything by default and only allow a select few sites through the firewall? Because that seems terrible. The alternative, I guess, would be that someone said, "Thinglink? sounds suspicious." Blocked. In either case, weird.

Tristan Foyle

5/10/2013 06:18:52 am

This is just an excellent tool to use in order to set up a fun interactive learning experience.

John DePiore

10/22/2013 10:05:37 am

I was perusing around in your archives and noticed Thinglink. We had just talked about this in class a couple weeks ago. I love it. We are learning so many different cool things in this class that I am afraid if I don't use them all now I will forget about them. To help avoid that I am keeping a list of them and if I dont' experiment with all of them enough during this semester I will make a point to do so afterwards... and if I ever have any questions, I'll know right where to find you...... TFT.net!!!

Shan link

2/3/2014 01:23:47 am

It's really amazing to create the visualize the text with the links to the history, you feel like you could travel to the medieval time to know what happened at that time. Very good for learning. So, I can make it in my Chinese teaching with that visualized method that will be fun for my students. Thanks.

Chelsea

4/28/2014 08:41:17 am

Wow! What a great Web 2.0 tool! There are endless possibilities when using this in the classroom. Teachers and students can both benefit from ThinkLink, I will be sure to use this tool!

Danielle Judy link

4/29/2014 11:29:15 am

This program looks fascinating. Thinglink.com would have so many possibilities in any classroom. My license will be in Social Studies, and this would be a valuable tool in any of my lessons. It would be especially beneficial to visual learners.

aman1234 link

3/24/2015 02:58:50 am

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Starr Denny

5/27/2015 02:40:29 am

I was exploring the use of Thing link and I am really impressed with it. It is really user friendly and serves the purpose, it's a tool you can use for multiple purposes - communication, collaboration and creativity

Bring still images to life: Thinglink.com does that.

Click all the buttons for a feel of what you can do.

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