Turn Images into Interactive Lessons with ThingLink

Well, the course wraps up this week and I most definitely fell behind in creating my SCVNGER project, I did, however, get it on paper and have the general idea of what I plan to do so I will get 'er done eventually. One thing that I did accomplish was to to make a ThingLink which I would still like to improve with audio and that's another task that I will get done eventually :)

ThingLink is a website I came across during my Game Elements 4 Learning class that I took during the summer of 2013. It was an excellent class because I could set my own learning goals and move at my own pace over the course of a month. I did not delve too deeply into the course but I did read much of the handouts provided and picked up a few ideas and tools for my students and for faculty.

This website is a great resource for a flipped classroom. You will notice that as you point to each video related resource logo in my creation, you can click on the URL to the resource and it will take you to the website where you can learn about the tool. I plan to add a short audio blurb about each tool so faculty will know which tool might fit their needs. Then the Office of Innovations can use this to inform our faculty about some of the resources supported by Innovations in Teaching & Learning.


So take any picture, any picture at all, and you can make it interactive just by adding what they call "tags"-try it OR have your students try it as an assignment. You can browse for many more examples to get some ideas. Also here are some that could be used by elementary students, these were created by my classmate-she is very clever, huh?

Clara’s Thinglinks

ABC Phonics Poster

My Farm

Solar System

Can you believe that July is almost over and for those of us in education, August will be super busy; I will be doing several faculty in-service workshops. But that means I should have several new topics of interest to my readers by the start of the fall semester!