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Explore with thinglink

Teachers - FAQ about ThingLink

What is ThingLink?ThingLink helps you create and discover rich images.

In this project, students will create an interactive ThingLink 


Task:

You  have been selected to design an interactive ThingLink using the following Explorers:

  • Francisco Coronado
  • Samuel de Champlain
  • Robert La Salle
  • John Cabot
Process:

Naturally your ThingLink must look worthy of receiving a few 'touches' so be sure to make it graphically pleasing and chalk full of useful information. Below you will find the required information that each Explorer must have:
  1. What regions did these explorers explore?
  2. What country did your explorer work for?
  3. Dates! Date of exploration
  4. What was the purpose of the voyage?
Picture

Let's talk graphics

You need to include a clear, good resolution picture of your Explorer. Do do this, please use the 'more' tools on your Google image search and select either medium or large images. 

You will need to have an image to upload. 
Uploading images from your hard drive
You can upload an unlimited number of images to Thinglink. Images can be uploaded via the Create tab. You can also use the Facebook , Flickror the Web import.

ThingLink supports JPEG, PNG and GIF images. The maximum image size is 25MB. You can upload images without any resolution limit (there is still the 25 MB cap on image size though)! 

If your image has lots of text, they recommend you use PNG instead of JPEG.
Adding images from the Web


If you can view it in your browser, you can probably tag it. All you need to do is to find a URL of an image. In most cases, you can just right-click on an image, and choose "Copy image URL" or similar, and paste the URL at Add from Web on Thinglink. Thinglink will not make a fresh copy of the image, just a URL reference to it.

From there, you can begin to add 'hot spots'. Please read all of the directions. Here is a sample of a ThingLink.