ThingLink offers the education community tagging tools to bring images and video to life. It works across platforms and provides teachers and students with the ability to add rich media contents to any video or image.
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6 Amazing App Smash Examples to Inspire Creativity
ThingLink recently challenged members of our education community to take the ThingLink App Smash Challenge. The challenge was designed to help educators discover new ideas for teaching and learning with an iPad by combining two or more apps together...
Transform Teaching & Learning with ThingLink & Google Apps - ICE 2015
Every year I look forward to facilitating hands on workshops at the Illinois Computing Educators Conference in February. I truly enjoy working with educators who are eager to create, learn and embrace ways to leverage the power of technology for teaching...
Celebrate Holiday Traditions with ThingLink
If you're looking for engaging ways to include some holiday fun into your teaching before winter break, you might want to choose ThingLink as a platform for sharing resources. ThingLink allows educators to pack a lot of multimedia content...
The Hour of Code is Here
The Hour of Code is a week long global awareness movement that will reach tens of millions of students in more than 180 countries this year. The goal is to introduce students to the world of coding in as little as one hour. Tutorials for students are...
14 Resources for AppSmashing with ThingLink
In November I launched the ThingLink AppSmash Challenge to encourage educators to share great ways to combine two or more apps together to create, publish and share content using ThingLink as a presentation tool. The goal of the challenge was to create...
ThingLink Expert Educator Roundup
As the ThingLink Education Community Manager, I am rounding up talented educators who are interested in joining our professional learning network of Expert Educators. This is a great opportunity to learn, share and grow within our professional...
3 Alternative to Shopping on Black Friday
Black Friday is certainly a big day for shopping, but for teachers it can also be a day to take a breath and try something new over the long weekend. We encourage educators to consider 3 ThingLink inspired alternatives to shopping today. Learn...
Facilitate a Writing Workshop Using Google Docs
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On Saturday November 22nd, Simple K 12 is hosting a free Google Day of Learning designed to provide educators with The Best Google Tips for Your Classroom. Participants can enjoy a series of webinars...
Checkout the ThingLink AppSmash Challenge Channel
We are pleased to share a channel of ThingLink interactive images created by members of the ThingLink EDU Community. These amazing educators have used ThingLink as their presentation tool for smashing apps. Here you will find inspiring examples...
ThingLink App Smash Events
To encourage the ThingLink Community of Educators to have some fun and smash some apps this month, we are pleased to announce some AppSmash events. These events are designed to inspire our community of educators to explore and create. We hope you will...
Take ThingLink App Smash Challenge
Today I am pleased announce the launch of the ThingLink App Smash Challenge! #TLAppSmash. This mini version of the ThingLink Teacher Challenge #TLChallenge is designed to inspire, build excitement, share ideas and learn. Most importantly,...
Google Form Add-Ons Have Arrived
When I opened up my Google Drive this morning to create a form I was pleasantly surprised to find that Google Form Add-Ons have arrived!
I scanned the list of available options and found one titled Forms Notifications. I opened this Add-On in...
Live Event: Best Google Tips for Your Classroom
On Saturday October 25th, Simple K 12 will be hosting a free Google day of learning designed to provide educators with The Best Google Tips for Your Classroom. Educators can enjoy a series of webinars throughout the day, starting at 10 AM EDT.
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Join Our Live Event on October 28th
I am excited to have the opportunity to connect live and worldwide with talented EdTech SuperStars during the next ThingLink Interactive Image Slam. Join me and guest experts Richard Byrne and Shelly Sanchez Terrell to explore some...
Meet ThingLink Expert Educator Jodie Johnston
Today we are celebrating Connected Educator month at ThingLink by introducing our readers to one or our Expert Educators, Jodie Johnston. Jodie is a Curriculum Technology Specialist from Overland Park, Kansas who specializes in Web 2.0...
Meet ThingLink Expert Educator Sue Fitzgerald
Digital Research Toolkit, by Sue Fitzgerald
It's Connected Educator month and today at ThingLink we are celebrating Sue Fitzgerald. Sue is a connected educator who is also a member of the first group of ThingLink Expert Educators! We got...
ThingLink + Google Drive - A Webinar
Educators need a flexible toolkit of resources to meet a variety of unique personal learning needs. Keep it simple with just two amazing multimedia rich tools, ThingLink and Google Docs. Use these accessible and easy to embrace tools together to transform...
Tackk a ThingLink
One of the benefits of building a flexible digital toolkit is the ability to weave tools together to fit your teaching and learning needs. If you’re looking for a simple tool to serve as a container for one or more ThingLinks, try Tackk.
Tackk is...
Connected Educators: Power Up Your Pedagogy with ThingLink
Today I'm excited to be participating in a MOOC, or Massive Open Online Course that is free. Today's MOOC is part of Chris Long's University of California Irvine's course, Advanced Instructional Strategies in the Virtual Classroom. I...
4 Ways to Celebrate Connected Educator Month
ThingLink is a powerful tool for making connections and we are pleased to announce an exciting lineup of events to celebrate Connected Educator month. The events are designed to grow and strengthen our community of educators through the sharing...
A Free Day of Differentiated Learning on SK12
Instructional Shifts
Simple K 12 will be hosting a free day of learning on Saturday October 4, 2014. I am excited to kickoff the days' events with a webinar and overview of my interactive model highlighting Flexible Learning Tools for Digital...
Kick off Fall with 5 Game Changing New Features from ThingLink!
Interactive Video is here!
In case you haven't heard the news, ThingLink's Fall Kick-Off introduces 5 game changing new features! Here's news from the ThingLink Blog...
"We are proud to announce the release of five new features,...
Digital Differentiation on Simple K12
A Simple K12 Webinar Tomorrow
Do your students find it difficult to process and sift through a lot of Internet information to find what they need? Searching for information and making sense of it is a process that involves critical thinking. There...
Curate a Collection of Interactive Images
To demonstrate the power of a new ThingLink feature known as Add to Channel, I used this blog for a bit of crowdsourcing yesterday. I asked readers to submit links to images about outer space through a simple Google Form. Then I demonstrated...
Crowdsourcing to Collect ThingLink Space Images
To demonstrate the power of a new ThingLink feature known as Add to Channel, I am offering readers of this blog a chance to crowdsource. After I collect some links through this simple Google Form, I can instantly capture and curate the interactive...
Using ThingLink for Powerful Professional Development
My toolkit is filled with interactive graphics I've created and packed with resources. I use these to successfully jump start the learning of busy educators in places near and far. I frequently update and adapt the resources in my toolkit. They grow...
Get Inspired by a ThingLink Community of Educators
Earlier this week seven members of our ThingLink Community of Educators shared inspirational examples of innovative ways to use ThingLink as a tool for differentiated learning through a live webinar. The collection of resources has...
Create & Curate Collections of Everyone’s Images
ThingLink channels have just gotten better! Now ThingLink users can curate and create collections of anyone's images with a new Add to Channel button available under every public ThingLink image. This feature allows users to easily add anyone's...
Try a ThingLink Interactive Image Slam
Join talented members of the ThingLink EDU Community for one of our ThingLink Interactive Image Slams next week. Get inspired by others and sign up to for a chance to slam one of your own images.
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Build a ThingLink Classroom: Tips & Tricks
Want to learn how to efficiently manage ThingLink in the classroom?
ThingLink EDU is packed full of features to help teachers efficiently manage a safe and secure online learning environment powered by ThingLink interactive images. Google Docs...
Webinar Preview - Using Slides to Construct Knowledge
I am a big fan of using Google Docs Slides as a tool to construct knowledge. Built in functionality provides students with opportunities to engage in research, credit sources and work collaboratively to create and demonstrate learning.
Tomorrow...
Share and Inspire Through ThingLink Interactive Image Slams
Talented members of our rapidly growing ThingLink Education Community have discovered ways to leverage the power of ThingLink for a variety of innovative uses across all content areas and grade levels. ThingLink Interactive Image Slams are...
3 Great Ways to Use a Google Form
I am a big fan of using Google Docs forms to collect and organize information. Forms offer efficient ways to monitor and manage digital resources. There are many ways to put this fun, multimedia capable tool to work in the classroom
Discover three...
ThingLink & Google Docs Together at Last!
Great news! Great news! ThingLink now supports a rich-media tag to embed a Google Doc right on an interactive graphic. Now it’s easier than ever to transform teaching and learning with just two tools, ThingLink EDU and Google...
ThingLink EDU September Webinar Series
I am excited to be hosting a series of September webinars designed to help educators discover the power of using ThingLink EDU for teaching and learning. We hope you will join us for one or more of these free, online learning opportunities.
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A ThingLink PD Toolkit of Resources
This summer I spent much of my work time helping educators learn to embrace the power of ThingLink as a tool for Teaching and Learning. Along the way, I created a wealth of resources using a variety of formats to accommodate the learning needs of busy...
ThingLink Educators Featured on Huffington Post
Readers of the Huffington Post today will discover a wonderful article featuring ThingLink and three amazing educators, Jamie Forshey, Lisa Johnson, and Sue Fitzgerald. The article by CM Rubin, The Global Search for Education: Pictures with Links highlights...
Padlet Mini - Quickly Collect & Curate Content
Padlet Mini is a handy new toolbar extension for Chrome and Safari that's designed to help users collect and curate web content in a couple of clicks. Bookmarking with Padlet mini couldn't be easier or more efficient.
With the extension installed,...
Free Webinar: Transform Teaching & Learning with ThingLink
Are you looking for a user friendly and flexible tool to help you easily create engaging multimedia rich content to redefine teaching and learning? Are you interested in using technology to meet the personal learning needs of the students in your classroom?...
Blogging to Learn
As the start of the school year approaches, educators are busy preparing for a great year. As learners, many of us will approach the new year with excitement and optimism after reflecting on our own teaching during our time away from the classroom.
Those...
Free Online Event: Improve Writing with Google Docs
Would you like to improve your students' writing skills and help them bridge the gap between writing in school and writing in the real world?
One way of doing so is by using digital writing and Google Docs, the documents editor available in...
EdTech You Should Know
EdTech You Should Know is a new show in the Instructional Tech Talk network of podcasts, created and facilitated by innovative educator Jeff Herb. The show features one educational technology tool per episode that is...
Engage Students in Informed Decision Making
With access to an abundance of online resources, students can become informed decision makers and stakeholders in their own learning. Use of online polls, surveys, and digital tools for collecting feedback can turn passive observers...
