Thinglink Teaching Ideas
Teaching Idea #1: Precursor to The Book
The teacher in the classroom can create a Thinglink for his or her students to glean information. One suggestion is to add videos, images, and informational blurbs to a book's cover in order to provide background information on a text the class is about to read. The teacher might include a video interview with the author; the link can be attached to a button next to the author's name on the cover. If the book was turned into a movie, the teacher can include pictures of the main characters on the cover. The teacher can also include a series of pre-reading questions based on different elements of the cover. The students can make predictions about the book based on a tagline, an author's previous work, the title itself, or the image on the cover. This suggestion is applicable to elementary, middle, and high school levels.
If the teacher requires students to complete outside reading assignments, the students can create Thinglinks based on their outside reading books. The students can post these Thinglinks to Edmodo, present them to the class as a whole, or even put the Thinglink on a Padlet for classmates to ask questions about the book itself.
If the teacher requires students to complete outside reading assignments, the students can create Thinglinks based on their outside reading books. The students can post these Thinglinks to Edmodo, present them to the class as a whole, or even put the Thinglink on a Padlet for classmates to ask questions about the book itself.
Teaching Idea #2: My Life in an Image
This task could take two different forms. The first form is autobiographical. The student can upload a photograph from his or her own life (or even a picture they have drawn/Photoshopped to represent some aspect of his/her life) and annotate this image for its significance to the student's life. Maybe the student is creating this image for a unit, and one of the essential questions of that unit can be answered through the image the student has uploaded. All of the annotations can relate to that essential questions.
The second form is biographical. Maybe you teach a social studies class, or even a science class in which you are teaching about a leading scientific theorist or contributor. Students can take an image of the person, or an image representative of that person and analyze it through annotations on the image itself. All of this can be accomplished through Thinglink.
The second form is biographical. Maybe you teach a social studies class, or even a science class in which you are teaching about a leading scientific theorist or contributor. Students can take an image of the person, or an image representative of that person and analyze it through annotations on the image itself. All of this can be accomplished through Thinglink.