Mystery School

Every school has a story to tell. This ThingLink was submitted to Bring the Textbook to Life without a location tag. Let's see if we can learn more about the Mystery School.

"This school was just built after our old one was destroyed by an EF5 Tornado. The picture was taken a year after our entire town was destroyed."   

-Cory Goetsch 

Bring the Textbook to Life! Update & Advice

Student Created Icons

As we begin the 3rd week of the our Classroom Creative Challenge, we would like to pause for a moment to highlight the school images displayed in the Book Channel below, share my story to illustrate one approach to completing the creative challenge, and collect some feedback from participants to get the most out of the learning. We also want to give busy students and teachers some time to catch up or join us. This project gets better with a lot of participation!

It is clear now that the most important task for this challenge is to share an interactive image of your school, and then build on that by participating in additional challenges as time allows.

Living in the US: Students Choose Next Question

This week it's time to let students choose the Question of the Week for Living in the US - Bring the Textbook to Life! Find the form on the interactive image below and please vote.

Using Slides to Construct Knowledge

Simple K 12 Webinar Resources

Living In the US: Games at Recess

Week 2 Classroom Creative Challenge

Recess is a favorite part of the school day for many students in the US. We would like to hear about the games students play and the things they like to do during recess every day to find out if it is the same or  in places across the US.

Free Webinar: Avatars & Internet Safety

Join us for a free webinar on Avatars and Internet Safety to kickoff Living in the US - Bring the Textbook to Life! 
There's no better time than to focus on Internet safety then when introducing a collaborative project! 

We are excited to share Avatars and Internet Safety lessons and resources to help remind students to protect their identities when collaborating and communicating online.

A Project with History

I'm excited about launching a high interest end of year classroom collaborative project that's sure to be fun and engaging for students. This project has history for me since this will be my third go around, and I am inviting readers of this blog to join us for...

Living in the US Bring the Textbook to Life!

Bring the Textbook to Life & Explore Living in the US

Join us in an exciting ThingLink Classroom Creative Challenge to build interactive books about Living in the US. This is a great end of year project that's loaded with learning and offers a high level of student interest. Help us to put your state and school on the map!

Let's Bring the Textbook to Life as we explore Living in the US!

Pollution Party Images

I've been teaching 5th graders to use images to construct knowledge. As they create their images I continually ask them to explain their learning through the use of clear and concise words. I do see some evidence here that all of the promting is encouraging students to interact with the content! 

Customize Colors on Tags w/ ThingLink

Reposting from the ThingLink Blog

One of our most requested features has been the ability to customize the fonts and colors of rich media tags - aka the pop-ups!

We are happy to announce that these features are now available to ThingLink PRO, Whitelabel, and VIP users.

More customization options will allow you to match the look and feel of your tags with the graphic style of your images and videos.  Using brand colors and font styles enhances the additional layer of information on your media.

1. Change tag pop-up color
2. Change font color and size
3. Four font choices: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma & Times New Roman

Here are a couple of examples of what you can do:



Here is a how the feature appears in the editor.


We hope you enjoy the new features and as always, please keep us in the loop with any cool projects you're working on!

If you are interesting in signing up to Pro, Whitelabel or Premium Education please sign up here.

Wordling in Nashville Again

Celebrating 6 Years of Learning Through Blogging

I'm back in Nashville where I first began this blog 6 years ago. I started with Wordle and I wordled everything along the way!