ThingLink

ThingLink is a great way to connect a single image as a portal to personalized text, videos (from social sites or uploaded personal video), websites, or more photographs. You can focus on one topic and provide further pathways to explore the subject. Teachers can use these as a teaching platform and students can use it as a technology integration product. Links can be uploaded into Edmodo accounts or links can be shared and added to a webmix in Symbaloo EDU. Down below is a sample with a capybara, but here are some other ways to use ThingLink in your classroom:


 * Biography: Teach others about famous figures
 * Autobiography: Take your own photo and provide information and images about yourself
 * Science: Label and define pictures and diagrams (life cycles, weather cycle, landforms, rapid and slow changes to Earth, body systems)
 * Research: Share findings on biomes, animal, author, inventor, and more
 * Math: Multiplication Strategies, problem solving strategies, multiple step problems, fractions, geometry
 * Social Studies: Maps to show travels (Lewis & Clark),, specific events (Alamo/Juneteenth), or to express perspectives from single scene (soldiers in a war scene and the thoughts going through their heads based on body language and historical events)
 * ELAR: Nonfiction text features, literary devices, author studies
 * Parent Communication: Show what was learned at school
 * Flipped Learning: Showcase anchor charts to make classroom resources available on line for home reference