Looking at various apps can be a daunting affair with apps being invented and available for downloading and trying. It's wading through the various apps that is time-consuming and a chore. Teachers do not have time nor money, so the best apps are frequently the ones which are easy to use and wonderfully free of charge.
Week 1:
My top picks for the busy teacher are these apps which are guaranteed to work for the creative classroom.
Thinglink: The all-in-one place for different content.
Have you ever felt you wanted an app where you can add all the links to content sources in one place so your students can remain focused and directed? Also, would you like a youtube link which opens on the same page without your having another window open? I find this is best because students are often tempted to go off exploring links on the sidebar on a Youtube page. This way, the video plays on the actual thinglink image (beautiful!)
Anyways, I would like students to demonstrate their learning by
- creating their own images with links or with their own content such as video(to combine images in an attractive manner, they can try to collage it using Collage. Refer to the sample on the right for a model of the final product of this artifact.
- combining ideas in a collaborative group and produce content after research and discussion. I hope that through this they have synergy as a group and practice their learner skills of teamwork, independent learning and stretch their creativity.
- encouraging higher order thinking skills by posing hinge point questions which students can take in directions of their own choosing.
- sharing their unique perspectives of the world by combining different media and art and constructing their own learning.
Thinglink can be embedded into blogs or shared which makes it fantastic. Or try these many uses for it.
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