Tips to help you use ThingLink's tag generation tool

Recent advances in technology have given computers the ability to be creative based on directions we give them. When you open a 360° image in ThingLink, you will see a popup window that will ask you to describe your project and automatically create 5 tags for you. Here are some tips to use it effectively!

Note: Check with your teacher if they have additional rules about using this tool.

The tags that the tool creates may not always have the correct information because it “learns” from the Internet — and we know that the Internet can contain incorrect information. 

Be careful and check the information with a trusted source. 

This tool can be very helpful for brainstorming ideas if you feel stuck. Add to the ideas that it suggests, or delete them if they don’t make sense. 

You can experiment with the words you type into it. If you type 'Yosemite National Park' you will get different tags than if you write 'Climate change and Yosemite National Park'. Try different prompts to see which ones give you the best ideas to play with.

This tool cannot see the 360° image like we can; it only relies on the words you type in. If you have a picture of a lake and you write 'mountain' in the tool, it might put a tag about a mountain on top of the lake.