Showing posts with label #ThingLink_EDU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #ThingLink_EDU. Show all posts
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Using ThingLink for Powerful Professional Development
I will be sharing some of my favorite ThingLink Powered PD resources during a webinar on Tuesday, September 23rd at 8:00 PM EDT. Dan Gallagher will be providing assistance as our webinar moderator so I can share what I've created clearly and efficiently for participants to enjoy.
Explore This Channel of Professional Development Resources
- Great Ways to Use Google Drive
- Digital Differentiation - Flexible Learning Paths
- SAMR Through a Variety of Lenses
- + More
I hope you will join our next ThingLink Webinar to explore my Toolkit of ThingLink Powered PD Resources. Can't make the live broadcast? Sign up and receive the archived video.
Friday, November 13, 2015
6 Ways to Use ThingLink Hashtags
ThingLink hashtags provide teachers and students with a way to easily organize ThingLink content within a safe learning environment. ThingLink hashtags are handy searchable smart phrases that can be used to accomplish some important classroom tasks.
Read more on the ThingLink Blog...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
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 into active participants.
The ThingLink Teacher Challenge this week asked educators to explore the use of an interactive image for informing and collecting feedback from an audience. We introduced Polldaddy as an integrated tool for the task. Polldaddy is an excellent choice because rich-media tags support embedding of a poll into an interactive image, allowing the poll to pop up without leaving the page. Of course, there are many web tools available for collecting feedback and any of those tools can be linked to a ThingLink interactive image.
Examples of Using ThingLink for Informed Decision Making
Participants self-published their interactive images on the Padlet wall linked below. Many participants chose to create interactive images to share tech tools and collect feedback about popular choices, which makes the images particularly useful for teachers as we approach the start of the school year. I hope you will explore the Padlet and watch it grow as more participants add images. There is a wealth of expertise here!
Final Thoughts
As we kick off a new school year I encourage teachers to consider creating activities to inform students and collect feedback as alternative to traditional homework assignments. Completing this type of activity prior to class can maximize instructional time and it is certainly more interesting than a worksheet. Just think about the possibilities that exist with ThingLink and tools for collecting feedback!
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