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Unpretentious Librarian: What's Your Challenge?

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Unpretentious Librarian: What's Your Challenge?

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@sue_fitz

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I am a firm believer that YOU are in control of your own professional development.Whether you sign up for a meeting of interest, participate in a Twitter chat, attend an EdCamp or convention of choice, or partake in an online opportunity it is YOU who should decide on your professional development needs.

When the ThingLink Teacher Challenge came through my personal learning network (PLN) at the beginning of the summer, I knew this was an awesome tool that needed further investigation so I eagerly joined a global network of learners for 10 weeks of collecting, curating, and sharing interactive images. The awesome Susan Oxnevad, author of Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners, managed the TLChallenge communicating through a blog, Twitter, email, and Google+. The challenge didn't stop while I was traveling because I picked up my iPad and continued on. I absolutely love the ease of this tool plus the new video platform. It is rumored that there will be" many more education features and functionality improvements coming in the next months."

What did I bring away from this experience?

I had ready-made tools for professional development workshops, projects promoting literacy to share with my students, interactive maps to help our summer reading program, eContent tutorials, and expertise to introduce a new tool to my teachers and students.I also had the privilege to have projects highlighted in the article I chose this virtual experience that was well worth the 10 weeks of knowledge that I will bring back to my school and learning community for this coming year. I am now in the 2nd week of the The Global Search for Education: Pictures With Links and attend a freeThingLink webinar . Edublogs Teacher Challenge with the amazing Sue Waters and I know this will be as extraordinary as my summer challenge. What goals have you set for yourself and what professional development opportunities will you choose in the new school year? I hope to continue to add to my ThingLink projects and collaborate with those in the Challenge.

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I am a firm believer that YOU are in control of your own professional development.Whether you sign up for a meeting of interest, participate in a Twitter chat, attend an EdCamp or convention of choice, or partake in an online opportunity it is YOU who should decide on your professional development needs.

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Can ThingLink Turn Bloom's Taxonomy Upside Down

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Can ThingLink Turn Bloom's Taxonomy Upside Down

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I had the opportunity to participate in Challenge which is a free, self-paced, online course that aims to help teachers to transform classroom teaching and e-learning using ThingLink; a tool that enables users to upload their photos and tag them using a variety of media, e.g., text, audio, video, links, ... etc. It simply adds life to the static images and make them more interactive and engaging for the audience. During the ten weeks of this course, we created fabulous images that fulfill certain purposes.

Of course, it took a long time to create these images above, however, I enjoyed this experience so much. It successfully unleashed my creativity and improved my ability to think outside the box. It also helped me to recognize some abilities that I don't know if I have them. Just imagine spending the whole day thinking, searching, and making decisions, then you find a piece of art that is created by YOU. It is a very fantastic feeling, isn't it? Throughout these weeks, I noticed that my ability to create greatly improved. Looking back to my products and others' work urged me to do the best and to be different in each task. Really, teachers need such educational opportunities to refresh their minds and discover the creative side within them, then try to transfer the whole experience to their classes. I mean to teach students how to create and innovate.

It is just a question that comes to my mind when thinking about a way to use

She points out that " Rather than starting with knowledge (i.e., Remembering), we start with creating, and eventually discern the knowledge that we need from it." Wright explained her point of view with great examples that inspired me to rethink about my way of teaching. Actually, we unconsciously do that in our classrooms, but we don't recognize it as many practices that we follow without knowing anything about their underpinning principles. I believe that being a ware of this idea will help us to find a clear way to make it a reality.

Throughout the ThingLink Teacher Challenge, we were asked to accomplish a series of activities in which the starting point was creating an image. This leads to another question that needs a clear-cut answer:

Can ThingLink Flip Bloom's Taxonomy Upside Down?

To find an answer to this question, I have to design a ThingLink-based lesson that integrates the Flipped Bloom's Taxonomy starting with creating, then evaluating, analysing, applying, understanding, and ending with remembering.

By the end of this lesson, students will:

Divide students into groups of three.

Ask them to brainstorm some questions that they would like to ask Ernest Hemingway if they had the opportunity to meet him. Give them some time to complete this task using blank sheets and pencils.

Once they finish, tell them to use to collect some images and resources that can be answers for the list of questions they generated in the step above.

Students, then, upload their final collages or posters to the

Ask students to go to the Class e-Portfolio to share their final products.

Ask groups to compare their images with the models and see if they include the criteria given to them. It is not just all about the form of the posters, but also the information provided about the character.

Give students more time to analyse the models and encourage them to create a list of elements that good posters should include, e.g., title, bight images, a variety of media that is suitable for the topic, organization of tags, the name of group, references, ... etc.

Ask them to analyse the resources that they have collected about Ernest Hemingway and see if they are suitable and easy for other students to read and understand.

Ask students to go back to their images and apply what they have learned during the two previous steps.

They can edit or recreate their products trying to include all the elements of the list they have created earlier.

Encourage students to explore other groups' images and leave comments about both form and content.

Students can extend their information by searching for other examples and products by others to identify more advanced elements that can make their images more attractive and informative.

Students can also go into depth by exploring more about Ernest Hemingway. They can listen to talks about his life and works. Watching YouTube movies for his novels is another way to do so.

Ask them to write a reflection about what they have learned or create a summary talking about their character.

Ask students to take a quiz about Ernest Hemingway using the items they have explored. This is a way to check the knowledge they have constructed through the activity.

Ask them to list all the steps they have followed when creating their posters and put them in a tutorial for using in other classes.

Tell them to bookmark useful websites, resources and interactive images for later use.

Here is a visual scenario for this lesson. Check out the large interactive image here.

I am not sure if my example can convey what I have in my mind. I just want my students spend more time using their higher order skills, i.e., creating, evaluating, and analysing to construct a new knowledge that is difficult to be forgotten. That's why I thought of using as a way to flip my way of teaching.

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Can ThingLink Flip Bloom's Taxonomy Upside Down?

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I had the opportunity to participate in Challenge which is a free, self-paced, online course that aims to help teachers to transform classroom teaching and e-learning using ThingLink ; a tool that enables users to upload their photos and tag them using a variety of media, e.g., text, audio, video, links, ...

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Azhar's ReflectionsMake Your Images Interactive by ThingLink

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Azhar's ReflectionsMake Your Images Interactive by ThingLink

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a free and user-friendly digital tool that provides users with the ability to turn any image into an interactive graphic. It enables you to create multiple "hot spots" on specific parts of an image and turn that image into a multimedia launcher. You can include video, record audio or provide a link to any website with the click of a button. You can easily embed an interactive ThingLink graphic into any blog or website. is a truly amazing tool that allows users to pack a lot of content into a normal space (Susan Oxnevad, 2012). To create your own interactive images, here is a great tutorial shared by our instructors in the GE4L Micro-MOOC:

Clara Cordero's Thinglinks (and Solar System) inspired me to create an activity for my high school students. Two years ago, my students launched a wiki called Welcome Back Egypt to help their country after the 25th January Revolution. They wrote many articles, and created videos, PPT presentations, and Glogs about the most beautiful sites in Egypt. I think that ThingLink helps students to collect all their products in just an image enabling them to leave comments, share, and extend interaction.

1. I ask the students to work into groups of three.

2. I tell them to use any search engine to find some images of the most famous sites in Egypt.

3. Using ThingLink, they upload their collage and start tagging and adding videos, audios, and links to more information.

4. Once they finish, I ask them to embed their interactive images into the class wiki page created for this activity.

5. Students, then, invite their friends from all over the world to view their work, ask questions, and share ideas.

Here is my first interactive image example that helps my students to get started. Please, click here to see the larger size:

More Ideas for using ThingLink in classrooms:

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Make Your Collages Interactive by ThingLink

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a free and user-friendly digital tool that provides users with the ability to turn any image into an interactive graphic. It enables you to create multiple "hot spots" on specific parts of an image and turn that image into a multimedia launcher.

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Clube de Inglês: ThingLink for Interactive Books

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Clube de Inglês: ThingLink for Interactive Books

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#1 What is ThingLink?
ThingLink is a free user-friendly digital tool that allows us to create and share interactive images. All can be done effortlessly and quickly and one can turn any static image into a multimedia rich interactive graphic by adding video, other images, audio, links to different sources...
In addition to the coloured dots / nubbins, ThingLink now has more graphic icons - we can therefore choose the one that best suits our purpose when tagging images.

#2 ThingLink in the Classroom
Its uses in the classroom are limitless. We can use it for any subject, any grade! Depending on our goals, we can tag the information ourselves or use it as a collaborative tool and ask our students to add /tag info. I've used it before with maps, with famous paintings as you can read here; I've used it with students for introductions as well as to introduce myself.

#3 Using ThingLink for Reading Suggestions
An interesting way of using this innovative and flexible tool in the classroom is also for Reading recommendations and suggestions. Bring books to life by collecting resources, challenging students / potential readers with questions, highlighting important info, presenting the author!
"Gone Girl" is a book I've finished reading recently and absolutely loved it. By then I wrote a short review here (please scroll down as there are already over 100 books!) and once the movie is going to premiere in the beginning of October, I thought about recommending it beforehand :) Here it is:

I'd be very glad to hear from you! Thanks :)
Many thanks to Susan Oxnevad for the#TLChallenge

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Tech Adventures in a Middle School Math Class: ThingLink Challenge Week 6

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Tech Adventures in a Middle School Math Class: ThingLink Challenge Week 6

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The ThingLink Challenge this summer has been so much help to me in becoming more adept at creating and applying ThingLinks. (Click to read my last post about the ThingLink Challenge and how to join us!)

We are in week 6 of the challenge now. There are so many great ideas coming from all the teachers involved. Visit our showcase to get some great ideas for yourself. Susan Oxnevad (@soxnevad) even had a Twitter chat about ThingLink this past Thursday which was amazing! (Search for the #1to1ipadchat to find our tweets.)

What I have found very useful is learning that we can embed our ThingLinks into Padlet walls. I have used ThingLink and Padlet separately in the past, but combining them is a perfect blend of technologies, and so easy to do!

Here is my week 6 submission. The theme for this week was "ThingLink Unplugged". We were to create a ThingLink with the ThingLink mobile app to demonstrate how we can create ThingLinks without the internet, then upload them to the web when we return to an internet connection. This could be used during a class field trip, or just an indoor or outdoor excursion around the school. Soooo many possibilities my head is spinning! What would you do with ThingLink?

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The ThingLink Challenge this summer has been so much help to me in becoming more adept at creating and applying ThingLinks. (Click to read my last post about the ThingLink Challenge and how to join us!) We are in week 6 of the challenge now.

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Tech Adventures in a Middle School Math Class: Fraction Review with ThingLink

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Tech Adventures in a Middle School Math Class: Fraction Review with ThingLink

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@Mathtechy

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At the beginning of every school year, I spend several weeks reviewing basic math concepts like fractions with my students to recover from the summer slide. With so many new concepts to teach during the year, I really hate to waste so much time on fractions, a concept they have learned and reviewed for many years in a row. There's never enough time to teach my students all of the 8th grade Common Core Standards that they need to learn before state testing.
This year, since my students will have 1:1 Chromebooks, I'm planning on trying something new. I created this ThingLink as a way for the students to review the fraction topics at their own pace. I purchased enough pairs of earbuds from the dollar store, in case someone doesn't have their own, so they can listen to the videos I made with Explain Everything that are linked in the ThingLink.

There are 4 numbered sections for the students to move through, "Equivalent Fractions", "Fraction Operations", "Mixed Numbers", and "Fractions & Decimals". In each section is a video (or two) to watch. Then I will have some practice problems for them to work through, which I will use as a formative assessment to see if they are understanding on their own. If they are still struggling, I will be able to give them one-on-one or small group instruction to go along with the video instruction. Once they feel they have mastered the topic, they can click on the link to take a quiz which I created in ThatQuiz. (This is not the actual ThingLink I will use with my students. I have another copy of it which has different links to the ThatQuiz quizzes that my students must sign in before they can take. This one has practice quizzes only so you can try them out.)
Since this is self-paced, I anticipate a few students will finish before the rest of the class. I will have some extension activities, possibly word problems, for them to complete. Stay tuned... I'll let you know how this independent learning works out!
I updated my ThingLink on 7/26/14 for the #TLChallenge. This week's theme was "Turn It Up a Notch with Sound". Our challenge was to use Audioboo to add sound to our ThingLink and incorporate UDL (Universal Design for Learning - check out this video for more info on UDL). I used the Audioboo sound clips to read the directions in each section to my special education students who might have difficulty reading them on their own.

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At the beginning of every school year, I spend several weeks reviewing basic math concepts like fractions with my students to recover from the summer slide. With so many new concepts to teach during the year, I really hate to waste so much time on fractions, a concept they have learned and reviewed for many years in a row.

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Tech Adventures in a Middle School Math Class: ThingLink Teacher Challenge

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Tech Adventures in a Middle School Math Class: ThingLink Teacher Challenge

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@Mathtechy

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Susan Oxnevad (@soxnevad) has organized the "ThingLink Teacher Challenge 2014". (Touch the image above to see the "nubbins" appear. Then touch each one to discover information about ThingLink and how to join the challenge.) This is a great opportunity for teachers to learn how to create and use ThingLink in their classrooms. Teachers and students can create interactive images that connect to either text, a photo, a video, or a link to a website. (Click here to read " 3 Reasons to Take the ThingLink Teacher Challenge This Summer".)
Here is my Week 1 Challenge entry:
It's not too late to join! Click here to be brought to the sign up form.

Next week's challenge is to "design your digital self" -- I can't wait to create this one!
Thanks Susan for organizing this fun summer professional development!

To see all of the participants' entries, flip through the slide show below:

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Susan Oxnevad (@soxnevad) has organized the "ThingLink Teacher Challenge 2014". (Touch the image above to see the "nubbins" appear. Then touch each one to discover information about ThingLink and how to join the challenge.)

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The Possibility Post | ThingLink Challenge: ESL Students research concepts

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The Possibility Post | ThingLink Challenge: ESL Students research concepts

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Being part of the ThingLink challenge has led me to explore how ESL students can use ThingLink along with Soundcloud to develop skills and understandings for success across the curriculum.

I used the Language and Literacy Level s Level 14 as a guide:

1. Visuals in multimodal texts

plan, research and deliver presentations on more complex issues/learning area topics, combining visual and multimodal elements creatively to present ideas & information, support opinions, engage & persuade audience

2. Words and word groups

develop higher order concepts in academic texts through language features that compact and generalise ideas, for example using nominalisation, technical and abstract vocabulary

Continues to use an extensive range of vocabulary to express complex, technical and abstract meanings.

Composes expanded noun groups with nominalisation to express abstract and technical meanings:

3. Understanding learning area vocabulary

use subject-specific vocabulary to express abstract concepts, and refine vocabulary choices to discriminate between shades of meaning
Rationale By: Susan Oxnevad There is a wealth of research to suggest that vocabulary knowledge is the single best predictor of student academic achievement across all curriculum areas. ..Digging deeper into vocabulary means more than just sending students to a dictionary to look up the definition. Students must interact with new vocabulary. Opportunities to use words, explore them within different contexts and create non-linguistic representations of words will help them do more than just memorize words. ThingLink is well-suited for the task.
With my ESL year 11 students this vocabulary activity was a formative task for their Text Production Oral on a global campaign that they are passionate about.

The Activity

In this activity you will research three concepts that are essential in understanding your issue;

1. Create an original digital image. (Use a Google presentation slide)

2. Upload your image to ThingLink.

3. Add Rich Media Tags to define three concepts through multimedia

Find a video that explains or demonstrates one concept. (Save the link)

Use Soundcloud to record a definition of another concept. (Save the link)

Find another source, a website, an animation or a Ted Talk to demonstrate the third concept.

By using ThingLink students created interactive images to research and demonstrate learning. The interactive image could be used to help students to dig deeper into the meaning of their concepts and develop meaning through research.

Blogging

The final part of the task was for the students to upload their ThingLink Concept diagram to their blog and tell others about their global concern. By blogging the students were given the opportunity to express their opinion and point of view. As the Language and Literacy levels show, ESL students need to develop language that indirectly expresses opinions and constructs representations of people, events, and consider expressed and implied judgements.

Please enjoy one of my student's blog post HERE.

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ThingLink Challenge: ESL Students research concepts

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Being part of the ThingLink challenge has led me to explore how ESL students can use ThingLink along with Soundcloud to develop skills and understandings for success across the curriculum.

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Unpretentious Librarian: ThingLink Teacher Challenge Week #4 and #5

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Unpretentious Librarian: ThingLink Teacher Challenge Week #4 and #5

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by @sue_fitz

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I am having a wonderful time creating new projects in the ThingLink Teacher Challenge this summer. I was on vacation for challenge #4 so here is a combined blog for both weeks.

Week #4 Challenge was to produce an interactive map. I chose to produce a map of local libraries and posted this on our Facebook and Twitter accounts to help promote summer reading. In essence I am hoping this might become a family routine all year.

Week #5 Challenge was to use the new ThingLink video feature just announced this summer. I must say it was very user friendly and I can see this to be a awesome tool to use in the classroom. I used an existing tutorial video on accessing eBooks and added direct links to our FollettShelf. Again I posted this on our school's Facebook and Twitter accounts to promote our summer reading challenge.

I look forward to more ThingLink Challenges but I am excited about sharing what I have learned with my faculty and students in the coming year.

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ThingLink Teacher Challenge Week #4 and #5

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I am having a wonderful time creating new projects in the ThingLink Teacher Challenge this summer. I was on vacation for challenge #4 so here is a combined blog for both weeks. Week #4 Challenge was to produce an interactive map.

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Unpretentious Librarian: Thinglink Teacher Challenge Week #3

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Unpretentious Librarian: Thinglink Teacher Challenge Week #3

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by @sue_fitz

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This week's Thinglink Teacher Challenge included:
" Week 3: Dig Deep Into Vocabulary

Objective

In this activity you will

Overview

In this activity you will create an interactive image to to help students develop build vocabulary. Think about your image as a digital poster. You can weave together digital tools to create an activity that can be used to introduce students to vocabulary prior to a lesson, or your interactive image could be used to help students develop meaning through research."

After much thought I decided to design one on our Google Drive accounts. I hope to use this with both our faculty and students.

Oxnevad, Susan. "ThingLink Blog." ThingLink Teacher Challenge. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 June 2014.

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This week's Thinglink Teacher Challenge included: " Week 3: Dig Deep Into Vocabulary In this activity you will In this activity you will create an interactive image to to help students develop build vocabulary. Think about your image as a digital poster.

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Unpretentious Librarian: ThingLink Teacher Challenge Week 2

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Unpretentious Librarian: ThingLink Teacher Challenge Week 2

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by @sue_fitz

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With this challenge I have come up with an awesome "Meet the Librarian" presentation. I'm always trying to "jazz up" what many classify the library orientation routine. I plan on using ideas from this project to introduce myself to the new incoming students and highlight some of our programming. I can use the same picture but tweak the links to better represent our library program rather than my social media accounts. With the popularity of anchor charts, I will post basic information rather than include it in the presentation. Here's to my ThingLink Week 2 Challenge project.

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With this challenge I have come up with an awesome "Meet the Librarian" presentation. I'm always trying to "jazz up" what many classify the library orientation routine. I plan on using ideas from this project to introduce myself to the new incoming students and highlight some of our programming.

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Unpretentious Librarian: Taking the ThingLink Teacher Challenge - it's FREE!

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Unpretentious Librarian: Taking the ThingLink Teacher Challenge - it's FREE!

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by @sue_fitz

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My summer vacation has officially begun and as I gather my summer reading, look through professional development opportunities, organize my thoughts in designing presentations, I have eagerly signed up to participate in the ThingLink Teacher Challenge. It began on June 9th with weekly challenges to produce and share some awesome ThingLink projects. It was very easy to sign up and I received an invitation to join this challenge. My main objective was to design some great projects that could be used in helping facilitate our library program. The amazing Susan Oxnevard leads the challenge.

Our first challenge per the Thinglink blog includes:

The first ThingLink Teacher Challenge will be to create a simple interactive image that explains "How To..." and taps into your own expertise. Remember, new users should keep it simple and choose a topic you are very familiar with. Here are some simple summer ideas for your first image.

How to Make Ice Tea

How to Get Fit for Summer

How to Grow Tomatoes

Anything goes, keep it simple

So this is my first ThingLink Teacher Challenge project.

This is an awesome visual that I plan on embedding on our library website, posting on our school's Facebook and Twitter accounts, and including on our Summer Reading Challenge information. I can't wait for week #2. Take the #TLChallenge this summer!

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Taking the ThingLink Teacher Challenge - it's FREE!

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My summer vacation has officially begun and as I gather my summer reading, look through professional development opportunities, organize my thoughts in designing presentations, I have eagerly signed up to participate in the ThingLink Teacher Challenge. It began on June 9th with weekly challenges to produce and share some awesome ThingLink projects.

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Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: Transforming Teaching & Learning with ThingLink

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Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: Transforming Teaching & Learning with ThingLink

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@soxnevad

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The experience of bringing together a group of teachers through a common learning goal this summer has been amazing. Now nearing the end of the ThingLink Teacher Challenge Week 7, participants are creating interactive images and self-publishing them all over the world wide web.
Interactive images created for the TL Challenge are embedded in thoughtful blog posts written by participants. Shared images can be found in Google+ discussions. Short and concise descriptions are circulating through the Twitosphere. Teachers are definitely collaborating about ThingLink.

Through the Stages

At this point, the technology has become easy and the tool feels quite powerful. Ideas and confidence influence our decisions to integrate new tools in innovative ways with ThingLink. We are building our digital toolkits as we put new tools to the test. The power of possibilities brings out the true teacher in us all as we begin to discover learning opportunities everywhere. This is exciting.
The interactive images created in this stage are showing strong elements of design. Images are designed to be visually appealing and they include a variety of multimedia to support unique learning styles. There is thoughtful placement of icons to guide learning and create a pleasurable audience experience. ThingLink remains exciting. The possibilities flood our minds.

Teaching Above the Line with ThingLink

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Transforming Teaching & Learning with ThingLink

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Thinglink Teacher Challenge 2014 | Learn Moore Stuff

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One of my favorite parts about summer is the opportunity to focus on my own professional growth. Last year, I participated in the Mapping with Google Online Course. This year, I chose to learn more about one of my favorite tools, Thinglink. Susan Oxnevad (@soxnevad) facilitated a 9 week challenge for teachers to learn to use interactive images to redefine learning in the classroom. This was a wonderful opportunity to expand my knowledge of this platform, learn new tools to use in conjunction with Thinglink, and connect and share with educators from all over the world.

Each challenge combined the curriculum with either a digital tool or a new way of using Thinglink. I was fortunate to try out Thinglink Video, a similar platform that allows you to tag video with digital content, making the viewing experience interactive. I also learned how to use tools such as Audioboo and Polldaddy to enhance an interactive image.

The final challenge was to create a channel of all the projects created over the summer. The free version of Thinglink does not allow you to embed channels, so I've created a Thinglink of my Thinglinks. You can see the full channel here.

Below are links to each challenge. It will walk you through the steps to create your own interactive interpretations for each topic. Click here to view the entire Thinglink Teacher Challenge showcase.

Intro: Week 1: Week 2: Week 3: Week 4: Week 5: Week 6: Week 7: Week 8: Week 9: 3 Reasons to Take the ThingLink Teacher Challenge
Get Started
Design Your Digital Self
Digging Deeper Into Vocabulary
Create an Interactive Map
Flip It with ThingLink for Video
ThingLink UnPlugged to Extend the Classroom Walls
Turn it Up a Notch with Sound
Engage Students in Informed Decision Making
Create a Portfolio Channel

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One of my favorite parts about summer is the opportunity to focus on my own professional growth. Last year, I participated in the Mapping with Google Online Course. This year, I chose to learn more about one of my favorite tools, Thinglink.

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by @khalidnafil

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Introduction Dans cet atelier nous mettons en avant les technologies JSF, EJB, JPA pour réaliser un projet Java EE qui consiste à créer une seule entité "Article" et interagir avec moyennant les deux opérations d'ajout et d'affichage. Dans ce projet, la couche web est illustrée par la technologie JSF, la couche métier est représentée par la technologie EJB et la couche de persistence est représentée par la technologie JPA. La base de données est assurée par derby, l'IDE utilisé est NetBeans version Java EE. Pour des soucis liés au temps, nous avons fait appel pour certains passages à la génération automatique du code. Architecture du projet Tout d'abord, l'architecture du projet se présente comme suit :

Nous avons d'abord un dossier "resources" (un seul 's' pour avoir de la compatibilité avec les projets Java EE à l'échelle internationale) qui contient deux sous dossiers : css et images. Ce dernier contiendra toutes les images nécessaires à l'élaboration de notre projet, tandis que le...

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Introduction Dans cet atelier nous mettons en avant les technologies JSF, EJB, JPA pour réaliser un projet Java EE qui consiste à créer une seule entité "Article" et interagir avec moyennant les deux opérations d'ajout et d'affichage.

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Homeschool Towers | Playing With “V” Vocabulary Words

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Homeschool Towers | Playing With “V” Vocabulary Words

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@HmSchlTowers

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"What vexation!" my children vehemently reply.

"Do you not have a voracious appetite for studying voluminous amounts of vocabulary words?" I ask, feeling vexed and troubled at this new revelation.

"Verily, we do not," they cry out vociferously.

"I admire your veracity, telling me what you think, but being vigilant with your vocabulary study will vitalize your minds and help you learn how to make a more valid argument as to why you should not study vocabulary," I voice my opinion, hopefully not in vain.

"Mom, your verbiage is way too verbose and does offer any validity as to why we should study vocabulary. We would rather vegetate and play video games," they declare, trying to veto my vote.

I vacate my position for the moment to ponder this most vexing problem: How do I make vocabulary study fun? Maybe I am not being versatile enough? Maybe I need to add a little more variety? Is it possible to make vocabulary study a little more venturesome? Hmmm......?

This challenge made me start thinking about what I want to do with our vocabulary study when we start school again. Susan Oxnevad, who is doing a fabulous job organizing the ThinkLink challenge, suggested using Robert Marzano's Six Step Process for Teaching Vocabulary. After reading this, I realized what is missing in our vocabulary study: Games and FUN!

Voila! The answer must be that we need to play with words more often! My children have gotten older, but that doesn't mean they don't still like to play games. It is I, who has forgotten to make sure to include the element of fun into our studies. Shame on me! It is strange how you can forget the simplest of things.

Also, I need to participate in the FUN as well, which is why I wrote the above dialogue, something I made up and possibly a bit confusing, but it was FUN! I worry too much about grammar and usage, but the truth is that I need to allow my children and myself to just "play" with words, to experiment with them, to just write, even if it doesn't make sense. (By the way, my children don't complain that much, but I do know that they have not been enjoying their vocabulary study.)

I like the idea of using ThingLink to introduce new vocabulary words. I think it will make vocabulary study more interesting and exciting as well. Below is my first try at this thought.

The above ThingLink image: V for Vendetta looks a little better when viewed on my ThingLink channel. (Mental note: Make sure the width of image is the right size for blog.)

For a little more help with those "V" vocabulary words, check out: Letter "V" Archives on Wordpandit.com
Also, here is a list of some Vocabulary Resources I have been putting together.

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Azhar's Reflections: It is NOT too LATE to Join the ThingLink Teacher Challenge 2014

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My friend According to the +Miriam Mahapatra shared with me a very great opportunity to play with a digital tool that I loved so much. It is ThingLink that allows you to upload your photos and tag them using a variety of media, e.g., text, audio, video, links ... etc. Once you finish your interactive images, you can share them via different social websites and embed them into your blogs so easily.
ThingLink blog, It is not too late to join their Teacher Challenge because it is ThingLink , an easy-to-use interactive image and video platform.
a free, self-paced, online course where you can complete the tasks on your pace. The aim behind this series of activities is to help teachers transform classroom teaching and e-learning with

I have just started playing with ThingLink and created some interactive images. Why not join us! If you are interested, here is all about this challenge:

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It is NOT too LATE to Join the ThingLink Teacher Challenge 2014

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My friend According to the +Miriam Mahapatra shared with me a very great opportunity to play with a digital tool that I loved so much. It is ThingLink that allows you to upload your photos and tag them using a variety of media, e.g., text, audio, video, links ... etc.