A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words or Maybe More

Skeletal System ThingLink Example

Recently I stumbled across a tool that I am excited about! ThingLink is tool that allows teachers and students to create interactive images. Videos, music, and web content can easily be added to any image using sites like Vimeo, YouTube, Flickr, and Soundcloud. The interactive image can then be embedded in a class site, wiki, or blog.

Richard Byrne gives a short demo on how to use ThingLink. 


There are many educational uses for ThingLink. I see this tool successfully integrated across the curriculum whether you are trying to build excitement when starting a new unit, activating prior knowledge, doing an author study in Language Arts, explaining the structure of a cell in Science, walking through the steps to solve a problem in Math, providing details for a map in Social Studies, and the list goes on. There are so many wonderful uses for this tool!

@AuntyTech has also compiled 27 Interesting Ways to Use ThingLink in the Classroom.