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Here are just a few of the possibilities with ThingLink:

• Create infographics and graphic organizers to visually explain a complex topic.
• Design and share interactive digital posters.
• Write a digital storybook
• Curate resources for a topic or project and share with students.

• Share out an image to students and ask them to annotate it with hotspots discussing what they see. This can serve as a formative or summative assessment.
• Create a class picture with quick student-written information to share with parents or grade-level teachers.
• Create a digital portfolio of learner work
• Create a timeline of events that includes appropriate multimedia resources.

Interested in finding out more about ThingLink and how you can use it your class or lecture room? We have completed a pedagogic assessment of this tool which details its strengths and weaknesses based on its potential for innovative teaching strategies.

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We collected and created some exemplar videos which include tutorials, case studies of educators using this tool and more. Click to watch and learn.

Starting out with ThingLink is straightforward—you have two choices for accessing ThingLink: create an account at ThingLink.com or download the ThingLink app. In either case, new users have to register for an account.

Now that you have had a good introduction into ThingLink and its uses in the it’s time to give it a go!

Virtual Tour of your University: https://www.thinglink.com/scene/855809852914532354

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Here are just a few of the possibilities with Piktochart:

• Explain complex task by offering a visual step-by-step task guide – you can include a picture that relates to each step, such as an image of a trainee removing a part from a piece of equipment when you are illustrating a repair process. This is particularly useful for learners who are less likely to remember text-based walkthroughs.

• Simplify complex concepts or ideas and distil information down to easily digestible pieces.

• Enhance knowledge retention and recall. Learners remember visually compelling charts, images, and other infographic elements much more effectively than text-based training content.

Interested in finding out more about Piktochart and how you can use it your class or lecture room? We have completed a pedagogic assessment of this tool which details its strengths and weaknesses based on its potential for innovative teaching strategies.

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We collected and created some exemplar videos which include tutorials, case studies of educators using this tool and more. Click to watch and learn.

Choosing the right type of infographic

• Timeline infographics are great for demonstrating the evolution of things (such as technologies, philosophies, and biographies).
• Instructional infographics are useful for breaking down the steps involved in completing a task.
• Comparison infographics place two concepts side by side and explain the differences (think capitalism vs. communism for example).

Here are just a few of the possibilities with Explain Everything:

• Presenting: You can use Explain Everything to create engaging presentations that help you to enhance your teaching input. PowerPoint and Keynote presentations can even be imported directly into the app. The laser pointer and annotating options, coupled with the wireless mirroring, makes it a great tool to present with.
• Peer to Peer Teaching: Learners can easily make a simple video that explains a key concept of a task. This video can then be watched back directly within the app.
• Assessment: Using the recording function, a learner could explain an entire mathematical problem for example. The recording will pick up any and all of the learners scribing and any comments that they make throughout the process.

• Consolidating: The app can be used brilliantly to bring everything together at the end of a course and create a digital scrap book of key lessons/learning. It could also be used to showcase learners work.
• Teaching Assessment and Development: Sometimes as a teacher or trainer you need to stand back and take stock of your teaching delivery. Your Explain Everything recordings can help you to pick up on any bad habits you may have as well as enabling you to listen back to your questioning and help you to tighten up your teaching and lesson timings.
• Live Collaboration: A new feature on the app enables teachers to share their Explain Everything whiteboard with their pupils through a unique code. Learners can see on their own screens what the teacher is doing in real time and they can then edit the whiteboard themselves with notes etc

Interested in finding out more about Explain Everything and how you can use it your class or lecture room? We have completed a pedagogic assessment of this tool which details its strengths and weaknesses based on its potential for innovative teaching strategies.

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We collected and created some exemplar videos which include tutorials, case studies of educators using this tool and more. Click to watch and learn.