Making images interactive

thinglink.com

Thinglink is definitely one of my favourite tools at the moment. I've already used it in my classes and in teacher training courses and here are some of the reasons why I'm so excited about it:
- it's a neat tool for creating interactive and collaborative images in our classroom or as a homework task;
- we / collaborators can tag images with any content (including videos, sounds and music from different sources) and then we can also share it (by email, in Facebook, Twitter, blog...);
- the chosen images come alive not only with what you can tag but also by adding colourful pins.
This school year I'm teaching a Tourism and Hospitality class and as far as possible I've been trying to develop materials that can somehow be useful to them or even to the community. I took pics in Soure and produced this video and, in class, I shared this Thinglink  (below) - a  map of Soure and its twelve civil parishes - so that learners could tag with relevant content. Here is the result - simple but effective!


Now, how is it done? Again, simple!
1st register at http://www.thinglink.com/
2nd click "Create" and choose an image - upload from hard-drive, import from Facebook or public Flickr images, or enter a link to an image on the web;
3rd In Edit give your image a title and set permissions
4th Share the image - you'll get a link to share with sts and / or get the embed code and paste it into a blog post.
Here is another one I've just created - this time to practise the Present Continuous - and open for all to add tags - so feel free to tag if you wish to do so.