AR experiences engage users and gamify learning; ability to create experiences promotes creativity and critical thinking

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ThingLink mobile app is the easiest way to save and share notes and observations about real-world spaces, situations and artifacts. Ideal for classroom and workplace learning with direct voice recording to camera photos!

Over 4 million teachers and students use ThingLink for creating accessible, visual learning experiences in the cloud.

You can maximize engagement and reach by sharing thinglinks on desktop, mobile, big screen TV, or mobile VR headset (ThingLink.com).

Teachers can use the site to collect tagged images, creating an interactive slide show to introduce their class lesson. Students can use ThinkLink to work independently or work in groups to tag a collage of images related to a specific subject, to tag maps and charts with annotations and related videos and recordings, or to create a story told in tagged images (www.commonsense.org).

Teachers can use ThingLink tagged images, videos, interactive audio to encourage both formative and summative assessment, providing teachers with a great way to evaluate what students know, both midway through a unit and at its conclusion (www.commonsense.org).

Tips: It is encourage to set up guidelines and incorporate a speaking or writing assessment to accompany students' projects, as it would be easy to game the system by clicking without in-depth(www.commonsense.org).

In this video learn all about ThingLink, a website which can be a great instructional tool for content creation projects. Thinglink allows users to take an image and "tag" it - allowing for linked websites, images, and movies. Teachers can sign up for a ThingLink EDU account which gives them the option to automatically create and monitor student accounts.

Learn how to use ThingLink to create interactive images that have hotspots that show the viewer videos, additional photos, text explanations, and more. ThingLink is great for teachers and students but also has business applications as well as family uses.