Explore 2 Narrated 360/VR Audio Tours

By Susan Oxnevad / Jan 4,2018

ThingLink has always been a tool that allows users to capture learning on the go. Explorers can use whatever portable device is handy to tell digital stories about locations and experiences on the spot. This is a fantastic way to engage learners of all ages in deep learning about locations and kick it up a notch! Please explore 2 narrated 360/VR audio tours created on location and on-the-spot and consider putting ThingLink in your pocket the next time you go on an adventure!

Image of the Week, Virtual Reality

Happy Halloween! Explore Burial Rituals Across Many Different Cultures

By Susan Oxnevad / Oct 31,2017

Today’s image of the week was created by Dr. Chris Boyd from Warsaw Community Schools in the great Hoosier State. We invite you to celebrate Halloween and explore Burial Rituals Across Many Different Cultures. Congratulations to Chris for winning the opportunity to select a professional 360 image for our library. We can’t wait to see what this talented teacher and ThingLink Certified Educator creates!

Share your image of the week for a chance to select a professional 360 image for our library!

By Susan Oxnevad / Oct 18,2017

Every Tuesday for the past 6-months we have featured an interactive image created by a member of our education community. Our goal is to inspire educators with great ideas and illustrate connections to learning goals. We love to promote our users, so we have designed a mini-contest to encourage you to submit a 360/VR image for consideration as our featured Image of the Week and earn a chance to select a professional 360 image for our library!

Image of the Week: Understanding Perspective

By Dan Gallagher / Oct 11,2017

Understanding perspectives & points of view can be challenging. Providing students a means to creatively capture the essence of perspective can unravel the meaning of it. Our image of the week comes to us from a ThingLink educator: Garth Holman.

Image of the Week: Tagging an Animated GIF

By Dan Gallagher / Oct 4,2017

An animated GIF is a great way to show a process. Tagging the animation can enhance the learning/explaining of each step. Our image of the week comes to us from a talented ThingLink Certified Educator: Laura Moore.

Image of the Week: Bringing Media to a Graphic Organizer

By Dan Gallagher / Sep 26,2017

Sometimes a movie clip, an image, or an audio track can explain a point or idea better than our words. Graphic Organizers, on paper, can be limiting in this regard. Our image of the week comes to us from a great ThingLink educator: Brandi Argentar.

Image of the Week: Tagging Video with Tasks Engaging in Content

By Dan Gallagher / Sep 19,2017

Engaging our students through video tagged with ThingLink, can be a way to introduce a topic and have them interact with content. Our image of the week comes to us from the amazing, Certified Educator: Christi Collins.

Image of the Week: Celebrate Constitution Day

By Dan Gallagher / Sep 13,2017

The Constitution of the United States was adopted on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Today, public schools incorporate celebrations of the history of the US Constitution. Our image of the week comes to us from the amazing, Certified Educator: Jodie Johnston.

Image of the Week: Embedding 360/VR Images in a Map

By Dan Gallagher / Sep 5,2017

Students are returning to the classrooms with the start of a new school year; some were fortunate to travel. As a teacher, part of our mission is to introduce students to a wider world view than what they may have seen. One way to virtually introduce them to places we have traveled to is to embed 360 images into a standard ThingLink image of a map. Our image of the week comes to us from Juha Salminen.

Image of the Week: Introduce your Classroom by having your Students Breakout

By Dan Gallagher / Aug 29,2017

Many students are getting ready to come back to school; why not start by having them breakout of the classroom? One teacher introduces his students to their new learning environment in an engaging way! Our image of the week comes to us from Bradford Harris.

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