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Screencast Script K. Kerr FRIT 7233 1

Scene 1 Title slide

Scene 2 Introduction

“Hi,

This is Kevin Kerr and I am here to introduce the educators of Jones

County High School to a fantastic and free web-based resource called

ThingLink.

When I heard about the plan to have educators present resources to

educators as part of this year’s Professional Learning, the first thing I

thought of was curation tools.

I have been taking Instructional Technology classes through Georgia

Southern and the most used tools in recent semesters have been

curation tools.

These tools allow users to discover, organize, annotate, and publish

resources of all kinds, from the web and from personally created

media—all into one interactive presentation. Not only do they combat

the all-too-familiar problem of information overload, they inspire

creativity in learning!

Like a museum curator works to find, acquire, arrange and present a

collection of related art, an educational curator can select a topic, find

valid sources, pull them from the web or a computer, arrange them in




an organized fashion, and then publish that curation as a presentation

for others.

ThingLink is a free web 2.0 application that is fast, easy, and fun to use.

Teachers can create interactive curations for students to use, in the

classroom and at home, in just minutes.

The curations can be as simple, or as complicated as you wish. A

ThingLink can easily be created by students in one 50-minute class

period, or it can be previewed by students at home, via teacher web

pages, or Edmodo. Students can use this tool to take ownership of their

learning while using 21st Century information literacy skills!

When teachers use ThingLink to create curations for students it

provides sources that are valid, safe and focused, and allows them to

carry out in-depth research.

But better, when students use this tool to create curations, higher

learning skills are put to work in a creative way as they build a product

to be shared with a wider audience that involves ,not only creation, but

organization, annotation, and publication—all while engaging students

with a variety of media.

Let me show you how easy ThingLink is to use….”




Scene 3 To use ThingLink, open your browser to www.thinglink.com and log in.

In order to log in you will first need to register for an account by

clicking on the “Join Now” button, in the top right corner. From there

follow the sign up instructions. They are extremely easy. Since I have

an account, I will simply log in to that account. That will take me to a

new page.Scene 4 I want to start creating a new interactive curation, to show how easily

and quickly it can be done. So, first, I’ll click on the “Create” button in

the top right corner. This reveals several choices, stretched across the

page near the top.

I can choose an image from any of these sources: I can upload from my

hard drive, import photos from Facebook, import public images from

Flikr, or pull in an image from a web link, like from a Google image

search or from a website.

Scene 5 In order to keep this tutorial rolling I have saved an image to my

desktop and I’ll just drag it in and drop it at this long blue box that

reads, “Choose images or drag and drop here.” There, you see a thumbnail of the image shows up and we can watch as

the image is successfully uploaded and the screen changes to a new

page with a larger version of the image.

Scene 5 The first thing I do on this new page is to give it a title by clicking in the

editable title box and typing in my title. I’ll name this “Georgia

Authors”. Then, I save my image by clicking on the green box that is

below and to the right of the image. I tend to save often.

Scene 6 Now it is time to turn the image into an interactive image by addinginformation and media with tags. Follow the instructions and “click to

add a tag”. As you see, when do that I have a box containing a “target -

looking button. I want to center that target over a portion of the image

to which I want to draw attention.

Scene 7 I’m going to drag that target, with my mouse, over to the city of

Savannah on the map, and release the mouse button to drop it there.

Not ice, a box, entitled “Edit Tag”, appears below and to the left of the

image. I’ll type in a short description and then link that tag to a website.

I have one ready in the tabs bar of my browser. I click on that tab, copy

the URL—the web address—and then past it back into the “link” box of

the Edit Tag” pop-up. Then I hit that green save button again.Scene 8 To add more tags, I will need to click on the edit icon—it looks like a

pencil—on the right side of the page, or in the upper left of the image.

Either one works.

Scene 9 I center my target box over another portion of the map and tag it as the

location associated with another Georgia author.

I will again enter a textual description and add a link. Once again, I have

these links saved as tabs on my browser to speed things up for this

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tutorial. You can search for them as you create, save them as

bookmarks in a labeled folder, or save them to your desktop. Choose

the organization method that best suits you.

Scene 10 This time I want to change that target icon to create a little more visual

interest, so I’ll click on the dotted “icon” button on the right side of the“Edit Tag” box. After browsing through the choices that appear, I’ll

simply change the color of my tag button to yellow. Again, I save my

work by clicking on the green save button.

Scene 11 This time I want to add a different form of media, so I’ll choose an edit

icon and add a tag to Milledgeville. I type in some information about

Flannery O’Connor and choose a link to a video about her that I found

on the PBS website. And I save my work.

Scene 12 I think you have the idea by now how to pull in an image and add tags.

So, let me show you a few other examples of interactive images created

by ThingLink users and, in the process some other features of the app.

Scene 13 First, let’s look at the share feature. When you click on the share iconon the right side of the page, a box pops up with a list of applications

with which you can share.

Scene 14 In addition to FaceBook, Twitter, and other social networking apps, you

can share to your teacher’s Edmodo page. You can also share by e-mail.

Below those choices, you will find the URL for your creation and the

embed code with which you can embed your creation in your own blog

or web page.

Scene 15 The top button icon on the right side, labeled “Touch” allows you, and

others to collect images that you like. By clicking on it, you save the

image to a repository where you can browse your collection.

Scene 16 When I choose “Me” in the top right corner of the page, I am taken to a

page that holds all of my creations, and all that I have collected through

“touching” them. By clicking on “Touches”, I reveal my collection.

Scene 17 We will preview several of these to give you a few ideas of how you

might use this tool in your classroom. First I’ll double-click on the

“Atom” image and we’ll take a quick look at it.

Scene 18 (Hovering over “The Diagram of an Atom” image)

Then, I’ll click the browser’s “back” button to take us back to the

collection.

Scene 19 Next, a math image (Hovering over “Definition of a Rational Number”)

Scene 20 Now, a social studies image ( Hovering over “Benjamin Franklin’s Join

or Die”)

Scene 21 And finally, an art image (Hovering over “Interactive Painting, Van

Gogh”)

Scene 22 The search box, at the very top of the page, allows you to search for

others’ creations by subject or image.




Scene 23 By clicking on the “Browse” button in the top right -hand corner of the

screen, you are taken to a collection of “featured images” collected by

the ThingLink folks.

(On featured images page)

Scene 24 Spend some time with these images to get some ideas and to see more

possibilities.(On featured images page)

Scene 25 (Still on featured images page)

Today I have introduced you to the main features of ThingLink and

showed you how to create an interactive image that you can share with

students at school, or at home. I still think the best way to use this tool

is to have students research the issues and create the interactive

images. Don’yt forget to share your success stories!

Scene 26 Credit Slide:References

Ellis, T. (n.d.). Get it! On Get it! Retrieved from

https://soundcloud.com/digitalmusicmarketing/06-get-it

James Alan McPherson (b. 1943). (n.d.). New Georgia Encyclopedia.

Retrieved from http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-

culture/james-alan-mcpherson-b-1943

Sidney Lanier. (n.d.). Poets.org . Retrieved from

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1271

Southern_Writers_Map [Map]. (2008, December). In Georgia Magazine.

Retrieved from

http://www.georgiamagazine.org/archives_view.asp?mon=12&yr=2

008&ID=2054

Video: Flannery O'Connor | Watch Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly Online |PBS Video [Television series episode]. (2009, November 20). In Religionand Ethic Newsweekly. PBS. Retrieved from

http://video.pbs.org/video/1915701265/

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