Interactive Vocabulary Possibilities with ThingLink

As I am enjoying the ThingLink Summer Challenge, I am considering what I would like to get accomplished before school starts.  I would LOVE to have a fully-loaded Padlet wall stocked with the first six-weeks of science vocabulary!  Looking at my schedule, I doubt I'll get it done.  So....ThingLink will be on the list the first week of school, and my students can stock the Padlet wall with fantastic, interactive vocabulary images- An even better idea!  

Why not do a little app-smashing for your classroom?

Toon Doo (or BitStrips) + ThingLink + Padlet = 

The ThingLink Challenge

It's not too late to join us for this summer's ThingLink Challenge 2014!  Those who have dropped by before know that I love ThingLink, and this is a great opportunity to build some useful and innovative things for the coming school year.  This week's challenge is to create a Digital Me.  What a great idea for students in the first weeks of school!  I've already had a flood of ideas on how students could document the productions in the classroom in a virtual Digital class of Avatars!  Cool, right?  So here is my Digital Me...

Imagine what you can accomplish with your first tech lesson-

• A How-to on ThingLink
• A built-in internet safety lesson
• A mini-lesson on copyright
• Huge insight into your kiddos (using only first names, or better, funny AKAs)
• A landing place where students can share goals, accomplishments and tech productions!!

A bonus:  When students update their image, it automatically updates wherever you have gathered this virtual avatar classroom.  I can hardly wait to build mine!

 Won't you join us?

Another Great Example of Thinglink

Great App Finds!

For those who know me, I'm a tech junkie, and I'm always looking for new things in the tech world to use in my classroom.  I've been playing with several new things, so you'll get two for the price of one today!  In trying out Thinglink, a site that allows you to add all kinds of media to a picture, I embedded a how-to video for the app of the week - Tellagami.  Check out the Thinglink picture below!