Great potential! Eager to see where this leads. Might follow?
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Anitra Palmer
11/22/2014 09:05:29 am
ThingLink is a great teaching tool. My students are currently learning about the seven continents and I was thinking of using a world map as a thinglink and linking videos about each of the seven continents. I think it would be very interactive for my first graders and they would enjoy simply clicking on a link on a picture to increase their learning.
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Peggy
11/29/2014 09:58:51 am
I love this idea! I'm still new to first grade so I'm always looking for ways to mix it up for the little ones while still having it be at their level.
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Adina Karpoff
11/22/2014 10:52:54 pm
I think that I could use Thinglink in so many ways in my classroom as a fun way to intriduce topics or have students drive their own learning. think next year when I do my animal habitat webquest, instead of using just a website, I will use a group of Thinglink pictures one for each habitat with all of the embedded information on it for the kids to do their research project. Thanks for sharing this great resource!
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John
11/23/2014 09:07:13 am
I am eager to try ThingLink in my classroom. I think it a useful tool and can be useful when looking at non-fiction text and could be used to help students identify and learn more about various text features.
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Jenni
11/24/2014 12:39:35 am
I can see Thinglink being used as a teacher directed tool and a student directed tool. As a teacher you can use it to introduce topics, house resources and guide comprehension. A student can use Thinglink as an end product for a research project or any project they are assigned. I like how the thing link can be low tech to high-tech with just text linked to videos linked.
I recently used Thinglink for a Staff Development PIP session and the teachers really liked it!
(http://www.thinglink.com/scene/588417172007550977)
I even got some of them interested in making one of their own.
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Natalie
11/25/2014 01:55:35 am
Based on what I have learned about ThingLink, I have convinced colleagues to change a Gallery Walk into a ThingLink "Walk"!
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Courtney
11/25/2014 02:16:36 am
After looking at your tech review, I just thought of a way for my students to use ThingLink with a STEM project that we are working on. Thanks for sharing! You gave me the inspiration I needed =]
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Alli
11/25/2014 04:26:08 am
I agree that ThingLink is a great tool to introduce a lesson! It seems to be very interactive and engaging for the students. I can not wait to implement this in my classroom!
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Dave
11/30/2014 07:26:59 am
Thinglink looks like a great tool! It is something that I feel I can use in my classroom. I am thinking of trying it with some of my digital citizenship lessons. Your site will be very helpful for me with learning this app.
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Avery
11/30/2014 07:37:37 am
I like how you made a ThingLink out of an infographic for the health lesson. It really brought the content to life with the supplemental videos you could watch. The elementary health lessons are terribly boring and this would really be a fun way to get the kids engaged.
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Amanda Newman
12/1/2014 06:47:50 am
I love how ThingLink can be incorporated into a lot of other tech resources!
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Leanne
12/2/2014 01:06:29 am
I really like some of the links you posted regarding ideas on different ways to use ThingLink in the classroom! One that caught my attention was using it to post links to the different parts of a student's research project. Although I don't know that this would fly for the research paper my students write, but it definitely gets me thinking on how students can use this for the overall presentation of a larger project.
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Emily Grieser
12/2/2014 04:00:45 am
With all of the primary source analyzing we do in social studies classrooms, ThingLink would be a great resource for students to use to post ideas and discussion about the analysis.