Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Cool Tool to Share With Your Students

It's so exciting to be a part of the T21 cohort.  We are learning so many new technology tools to use in our classrooms and are excited to share these with you.

I'm sharing a tool called Thinglink.  It enables you or your students to use an image and label it with informational tags that may contain text, a link to a web site or link an image.  When I first tried it, I had trouble using images that were too small.  When you create or find an image, make sure it is saved in a jpeg format.  In this video, I used a Social Studies lesson but also wanted to do one for Science using the structure of a cell.  I believe if you watch this video you'll come up with a lot of ideas for you to use in your classroom.  Let me know what you think by leaving a comment below this blog.


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5 comments:

  1. Wow! Super cool tool, Debbie, thank you for sharing.

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  2. Great job Debbie! Love the blog idea for sharing the information.

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  3. Great focus on the instructional aspect - Thinglink can be used in all content areas!

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  4. Deb,
    Can you create something and then embed it in a shared document? Is it interactive so I could use it as an assessment tool? I'm thinking maybe to check student's awareness of settings in a novel like A Tale of Two Cities, identifying Paris and London...or pics of characters and have them name them...

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    1. Yes, Linda. When you create an image, you can share it with a link in any type of document, slide show or web site you have.

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