THINGLINK IN EDUCATION

Hello everyone, welcome to my blog. Eid Mubarak! <3 I hope everyone’s having a great day!

Today in my blog the platform we’re going to be looking into is ThingLink! Such an useful website to create materials for your students!

    Firstly even if you don’t buy a packet in this platform you can sign in as a teacher to benefit from its features like sharing, creating students...

When I first logged in I watch the helpful video that’s prepared for the people who just started using it. Then, examined the material types that are created here. There were many! Maps, audio introductions, Infographics... We , as teachers, may prepare exercises related to each of our topics.

Here , as can be seen, you create your group of students. Plus, you can be a member of another group. This works only by giving or entering specific ‘invite codes’! Easy peasy!

To create a material. We should firstly choose a background  to add descriptions, link, videos or photos on specific areas according to lesson. I , for example, used this one for the ‘My Town’ unite of 5th Grade English learners! 

When I clicked on add tag option, I saw these three types of adding tags! 

In ‘Add text and media’ type you can write the title, description , give the URL of an instructional site, add photo or video... This one is , I think , the most useful one! However in Add text type you can only write a description. When you’re indicating the areas on the background you may choose a related, convenient icon to be more understandable! As you can seen, i chose a grocery bag while describing Supermarket.  Overall, I tried to use ‘any available option’ to create a good material. 

A very useful feature of this platform is this: after clicking on the symbol that involves ‘a megaphone upon a book’ , they hear the robotic voice of a human who tells the descriptions in English. This might quite help learners improve their pronunciations as well. If you want them to hear YOUR voice instead of a robot’s you have the opportunity to add yours! 

When you’re done with this part, you can go settings to animate your tags and choose scheme! Don’t forget to add a title! 

Lastly, I had to click on ‘done’ and chose a sharing option. For all of you to see , I made it public and published! 

      With these kind of materials our students might study out of the classroom on their technological tools pretty efficiently. However, ThingLink can be used  ‘in’ the classroom too, surely! We can open the material on the smart boards and progress by clicking on each tag with an appropriate order, brainstorming and learning together. In that way we will be working on the topics by seeing, hearing, exploring the available resources...

    So, here ‘s the link of the material I prepared by benefiting from all of the advantageous providings of the Thinglink. I hope you liked it:   -PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SEE MY MATERIAL ON THINGLINK-

GOOD BYE! <3