Elisabeth Levine has been an educator for 18 years. She currently works at the Winston Preparatory School (WPS) a school for students with language-based learning challenges in grades 4-12.  As soon as WPS became a 1:1 school, Elisabeth saw new exciting ways to engage students in learning, expressing their thinking and collaborating with peers.  “I ..read more

This example shows how interactive infographics on large touch screens can be used to create engaging exhibitions in a physical space. Image: A student exploring the digital timeline at The Anglo-American School of Moscow. Photo credit: AASM The Anglo-American School of Moscow (AASM) is an independent, international school catering for students between the ages of ..read more

We are excited to share that Louise Jones joins ThingLink as Social Purpose and Community Manager. Louise will help grow ThingLink’s partner and education community in the UK and EMEA region through large-scale education initiatives and partnerships that help enhance learning and teaching using smart visual learning and mixed reality technologies. Louise is an internationally recognized education ..read more

POKE vocational college has made virtual tours an integral part of their learning environment in Microsoft Teams. This example shows how they are used to increase flexibility in learning and to develop future skills. Pekka Ouli works as an eLearning specialist at POKE vocational college in Finland. He is one of the early adopters of ..read more

This post features Punkaharju elementary school and their “Dirt Diggers” archeology project that engaged all students to learn about stone age in Lake Saimaa, Finland. The goals of the project were to: 1) engage students to learn about prehistoric periods across age groups and disciplines in their local environment, and 2) help students understand a ..read more

This project will give you an opportunity to create a unique educator profile while practicing the use of all the basic tag types on ThingLink: text labels, photos, audio, video, and scene transition.  If this is your first ThingLink Teacher Challenge, we will guide you through the experience with short how-to videos. If you have ..read more

In classroom use, ThingLink is a visual documentation tool that can support the various phases of active, student-centered learning.  Project-based learning, inquiry-based learning, and problem-based learning are constructivist approaches to education that develop the learners skills for research, problem-solving and collaboration. The process is based on authentic questions and problems identified by students, and finding ..read more

 Jari Simonaho is a technology specialist at POKE Vocational College where he has participated in multiple projects innovating learning environments for vocational education. He trains teachers and students to adopt new technologies in learning. The idea for the virtual museum came from visiting the British Museum in London; there was so much to see, but not ..read more

  Educator: Karalee Nakatsuka teaches U.S. History at First Avenue Middle School in Arcadia. In a collaborative project between their history and ELA departments, Mrs Nakatsuka’s students interviewed immigrants to America, and created interactive virtual museums to tell their immigrant stories. Goals: Get first-hand experience of immigration and the conditions that pushed immigrants out of ..read more

 Educator: Grace Ko is a Ph.D. student in Learning Technologies at the University of Texas, Austin. She has been a high school English teacher in Korea for the past seven years and has participated in multiple projects that involve technology integration in learning. Grace has worked as a research teacher at the Seoul Future School and ..read more