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March 28, 2015

Lisa Johnson is a ThingLink Addict, Are you?


Lisa Johnson admits she’s addicted to ThingLink. Do you share Lisa's excitement and passion for ThingLink? We would like you to get to know Expert Educator Lisa Johnson. Follow Lisa @TechChef4u



Thinking About Visual Literacy


The other day my friend and collegue, Richard Withers, displayed a detailed image in front of our staff and asked us to read it. This conversation was about visual literacy. One of interest to me.

March 26, 2015

Can You Read an Image?

The other day my friend and collegue, Richard Withers, displayed a detailed image in front of our staff and asked if we could read it. This conversation was about visual literacy. One of interest to me.

March 19, 2015

Free Webinar About ThingLink for Your District

With the announcement of ThingLink Verified Organization Accounts for school districts last week we have had an outpouring of interest. We thought it would be a great idea to offer a free webinar to provide stakeholders with an overview of the features and inspiring examples of ways to use ThingLink across an organization. I am excited to be hosting this webinar and I hope you will join us.


March 16, 2015

Take the Arts & Design Creative Challenge

 
Are you ready for another STEAM related Creative Challenge? In an ongoing effort to curate content related to the disciplines involved in STEAM, we are pleased to announce the Arts & Design Creative Challenge. This Creative Challenge helps us demonstrate amazing ways to use ThingLink by encouraging members of our EDU community to create, share and curate with ThingLink. As a bonus, the winner of this Creative Challenge will receive 3 ThingLink EDU Premium accounts for teachers at your school!

March 14, 2015

A Great Pi Day Resource


Explore this Great Pi Day Resource for Students
Created by Sharon Drake



March 12, 2015

3 Ways to Learn More About ThingLink for Education

Interactive Image by J Kern

We have been very busy on the education side of ThingLink over the course of the past year and we are pleased to see our community of educators growing considerably. We now offer district level verified organization accounts,  a designated classroom workspace for teachers and their students and ThingLink for Video! We have remodeled and improved our teacher management features and we've updated our amazing iOS app to be even better for educational use. We thought you might appreciate some resources to help you embrace our full-featured education platform.


March 10, 2015

Grab a ThingLink Account for Your School District

Today ThingLink is pleased to announce verified accounts for school districts along with the release of an updated iOS app that is well suited for educational use, making ThingLink EDU better than ever for teaching and learning!


March 7, 2015

Free Online Event: Google Tools for Your Classroom



Today Simple K 12 will be hosting a free online event featuring back to back webinars designed to help educators improve your classroom with Google Tools. You'll learn how to... 
  • get started using the best free Google resources 
  • improve writing skills in the classroom with Google docs 
  • go on field trips and explorations from the comfort of the classroom 
  • work with Google Forms to simplify data collection and documentation