I really love some of the projects that I have seen on Thinglink and although I signed up a few weeks ago, this week I spent quite some time going through it and trying to create my Produsage Project with it. Just like all the other online tools I use, I jumped right in and tried to create what I want and used that as a way to learn the tool. What I found was that I had a different idea of what it can do and it just didn’t suit my needs for this particular project/assignment. I did create a Thinklink related to the lesson I am working on and while it will not work for the entire lesson, I will use it in the lesson as an extension activity: What is fake news? How to spot it and stop it.
I also found it to be quite buggy; although that may have been a problem with the browser on my end; it’s hard to say (or maybe the free version?). I would be searching for example Thinglinks or images and have new tabs open and sometimes those tabs would have me logged in and sometimes they wouldn't. Also, I created as channel for the best Thinglinks I came across as I played around with the tool and they wouldn't all save. In the end, even though I didn’t end up using THinglink (except as an extension to my Produsage lesson) I can think of quite a few things that it is useful for. I can envision u sing it for timelines, virtual tours, curating a set of articles to focus research for students. To highlight some of the great ways that ThingLink can be used, here are a few of my favorites: Historia del Rock Virtual Field Trips, #Technology, #STEAM Basilica of Maxentius (aka Basilica Nova)
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