Thinglink...Touch the Future of Images

Make your images interactive with Thinglink! Thinglink is a website where you can upload an image and place "hotspots" all over it. I love creating Thinglinks for students to use. For instance, I uploaded a picture of a giraffe to Thinglink and placed research links all over the giraffe. When Kindergarten was doing their animal research, they clicked on the giraffe's "hotspots" and went straight to the websites to gather their information. My Kinder friends could easily remember which spot went with particular websites. They would tell me, "Just click on the giraffe's leg!"

Thinglink is also a great way to "house" videos and links so they're all in one place. For instance, after doing our Penguin Palooza projects, I linked all the classes' projects to a Thinglink so students, teachers and parents could easily view all the projects without having to visit different sites or search for the videos on YouTube.

Below are a couple of Thinglinks I created....one is the giraffe Thinglink we used for Kindergarten research. The other is the Penguin Palooza Thinglink presentation. To make the cool penguin pic, I used the Strip Designer app on my iPad to make the image, then uploaded that picture to Thinglink so I could put the video links on there.

Give Thinglink a try! By the way, I just learned that Thinglink is now a FREE app as well! I haven't tried it yet, but I definitely will do that very soon. If you try Thinglink and come up with a fun, engaging way to use it with your students and/or parents, please let me know. I'm ALWAYS looking for new ideas:)

Giraffe thinglink:




Penguin Thinglink:

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