Thinglink is a FREE(!!) website that allows users to upload a photograph and add anchor points to it. Those anchors can include text, photos, GIFs, other websites, and more! Once your Thing is completed, you can easily share it, embed it on a website... whatever you want to do with it! Best of all, they have loads of video tutorials built into their website to teach you all you need to know about creating Things of your own!
I had a great time team-teaching this with one of our 7th grade science teachers... she handled the content and I taught the kids the technology. It was a great partnership! The kids created their ThingLink accounts with their WCPS email address, then joined our class with a class code (provided by ThingLink to teachers when you join - that way you can see your students' work and/or reset their passwords when they forget!) We started with a picture of the major systems of the human body:
Next, the kids used WorldBook kids, student, or advanced (depending on their reading level) to research the human body. They then added bullets describing the functions of the human body.
This served as the kick-off to the human body because the students completed an overview of the six major systems of the body. They then had additional time back in science class to continue adding more detailed information about the human body. Here is a sample Thing, still in process. The students are continuing to add to their projects over the course of the marking period as they discover more and more about the human body!
What could YOUR students do with ThingLink? Create an interactive tour of your library? Make a map of the world showing events of a certain era? Take a food pyramid and make it interactive? The possibilities are limitless!
Have a lesson idea? Share it in the comments below!
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Jona
11/17/2015 08:57:39 pm
As we work to develop additional libguides on curriculum specific topics, I would like to include some thinglinks. I think not only are they informational but will provide some interactivity within these resource pages. Thanks for the great post and tutorial about this resource!
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