Thinglink
Thinglink
Thinglink is a fun way to interactive images or videos. The way it works is you would find a picture or a video and add link buttons that you assign to websites, video, text, or music. Students then click on the link or links to access that information. With this image of Mount Rushmore, students can click on links that take them directly to a Wikipedia page for that specific president or to a YouTube video of a documentary of that president. Students can interact with the visual by accessing links about the picture.
Students are asked to research Mount Rushmore and the four presidents that are on Mount Rushmore. For this project, students had to gather some information about each president as well as information about the building of Mount Rushmore itself. I included both a text link and a video link for each president to provide multiple modalities for students. Some may prefer the text while others the video. This use of multiple modalities could also help students with disabilities access information. Students move through the information on the picture and use that information in class.
This technology has many classroom uses. Teachers could use it to teach culture and geography by taking a picture of a map and putting links at various points to indicate certain places or certain landmarks. Audio and video files can be added to a picture to have students hear or see things like music or speeches. With math, students can access links that give them support. Students can also use Thinglink to annotate picutres to express their knowledge and to share that with other students or parents. This enhances learning because the interaction is very engaging and the format is not only visual, but provides multiple means to represent information. When students have multiple ways to access content, they tend to be more engaged and show increased achievement.
Students are asked to research Mount Rushmore and the four presidents that are on Mount Rushmore. For this project, students had to gather some information about each president as well as information about the building of Mount Rushmore itself. I included both a text link and a video link for each president to provide multiple modalities for students. Some may prefer the text while others the video. This use of multiple modalities could also help students with disabilities access information. Students move through the information on the picture and use that information in class.
This technology has many classroom uses. Teachers could use it to teach culture and geography by taking a picture of a map and putting links at various points to indicate certain places or certain landmarks. Audio and video files can be added to a picture to have students hear or see things like music or speeches. With math, students can access links that give them support. Students can also use Thinglink to annotate picutres to express their knowledge and to share that with other students or parents. This enhances learning because the interaction is very engaging and the format is not only visual, but provides multiple means to represent information. When students have multiple ways to access content, they tend to be more engaged and show increased achievement.