More Praises (and Ideas) for Thinglink

I've blogged in the past about some of my favourite apps and online tools, and a consistent favourite for me over the past 12 months has been Thinglink, a virtual annotation tool that allows the user to create interactive images. I've used this tool for a variety of purposes, from havingstudents record and share their thinking in a simple math lesson, to creating interactive picture dictionaries, to introducing myself and my students to a teacher and her class in Australia and vice versa during the first stages of a cross-cultural digital collaboration.

As I've moved from a classroom to a provincial position in education, I continue to value the wide applications of this digital tool.  Most recently, I used Thinglink to annotate a graphic which a colleague and I had co-designed, to share information about descriptive feedback in a more interactive way for an online session we were facilitating together...
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​While seeing this graphic at another session was co-facilitating today, one of the participants caught the Thinglink bug, and we brainstormed ideas about how this tool could be used to enhance not only student/classroom experiences, but also professional ones.  For example, to support self assessment during the TPA process, we wondered aloud at how powerful it might be for a teacher to submit to his principal a photograph of the former's classroom, annotated by the teacher to show how his chosen classroom set-up supports equity and inclusion, assessment for learning, and other important elements of learning space design.

Thinglink is a tool which I will not soon lose interest in, I think.  The possibilities are endless. I should have bought shares or something when I first discovered it!!