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New 3 Minute Teaching TOOL-torial: ThingLink!

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3 Minute Teaching “Tooltorial” No. 15 Provides a Quick Overview of ThingLink

Early last month I had the pleasure of making my first ThingLink interactive image. ThingLink [3] is such a cool free* tool for creating unique content for learning, it seemed like a great candidate for a 3 Minute Teaching Tool-torial. And now, here it is!

ThingLink lets you turn images and videos into interactive experiences. Check it out:


Here are the two ThingLinks I’ve created so far:

You can also embed these, but the ones I’ve created work best full screen, so I prefer providing the link as I have done above and letting people use them in the full screen mode.


*ThingLink has a premium version for $35 that offers additional functionality beyond what the free tool can do.

 

About Kelly Walsh [10]

Kelly Walsh is Chief Information Officer at The College of Westchester, in White Plains, NY, where he also teaches. In 2009, Walsh founded EmergingEdTech.com. As an education and instructional technology advocate, he frequently delivers presentations on a variety of related topics at schools and conferences across the U.S. Walsh is also an author, and online educator, regularly running Flipped Class Workshops [11] online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here [12]. Kelly also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com [13] and have a listen!

[Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own, or those of other writers, and not those of my employer. - K. Walsh]