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🏘️ What does our street remember that we have forgotten? 💡 IDEA SPARKS FOR ACTIVE LEARNING: History of Our Streets What if your students became local historians, uncovering the stories hidden in the streets they walk every day? With Tarina by ThingLink, a simple walk around the neighbourhood can become an interactive storytelling adventure! Here's how: 🔍 INVESTIGATE Take students outside to photograph old buildings, historic plaques, dates carved into walls and street names. What clues can they find? What stories might these places tell? 🎨 STRUCTURE Bring those discoveries to life with Tarina! Add text notes with historical facts, record voice notes explaining what they've discovered, and include archive photographs to compare the past with the present. 🌍 SHARE Create an interactive local history trail to share with families, the local library or the wider community. It's more than a history lesson. It's an opportunity for students to become curious investigators, creative storytellers and proud ambassadors for their local community. And the best part? Their learning starts beyond the classroom, with the world around them. ❤️ 📲 Download Tarina by ThingLink on the App Store and start turning everyday discoveries into extraordinary stories. https://lnkd.in/ek6PxCnd #TarinaByThingLink #ThingLink #IdeaSparks #ActiveLearning #LearningBeyondTheClassroom #LocalHistory #DigitalStorytelling #StudentVoice #EdTech #CreativeLearning #ProjectBasedLearning

🔎 What if learning about history felt more like solving a mystery? Imagine stepping into the shoes of an investigative journalist, uncovering clues, connecting the dots and piecing together one of the biggest political scandals in history. That's exactly what ThingLink Certified Trainer Gareth Green has created with his immersive Watergate experience! 🌟 THINGLINK TRAINER SPOTLIGHT 🌟 Meet Gareth, a Digital Education Developer at the University of Birmingham, who's using ThingLink to turn curiosity into active learning. Rather than simply presenting learners with historical facts, Gareth has created an interactive experience that encourages them to: 🔍 Explore evidence and uncover connections 🧠 Think critically and draw their own conclusions 🧭 Take control of their own learning journey 💡 Reflect on complex questions without simple answers And the inspiration? A Watergate board game he bought to play on holiday! 🎲 From immersive historical investigations to a 360° virtual tour of the University of Birmingham's library, Gareth is showing what's possible when creativity, curiosity and technology come together. We're delighted to welcome Gareth to our growing global community of ThingLink Certified Trainers! Discover his story and explore his incredible interactive projects here 👇 https://lnkd.in/ey8cBvEN #ThingLink #ThingLinkCertifiedTrainer #ThingLinkLuminaries #TrainerSpotlight #ImmersiveLearning #InteractiveLearning #ActiveLearning #EdTech #DigitalEducation #HigherEducation #LearningDesign #EducationInnovation

How do you prepare healthcare learners for complex real-world environments before they step into them for real? 👩⚕️🏥🚑 Immersive learning can give students and healthcare teams the opportunity to explore clinical spaces, interact with scenarios and build confidence in a safe, repeatable way. In this on-demand ThingLink webinar, we’re joined by experts from the University of Salford’s Learning and Teaching Enhancement Centre to explore how immersive learning is being used in health education, including an interactive experience based around the university’s Centre for Medical Imaging.  You’ll see how virtual tours and interactive simulations can support: ✅ clinical and healthcare education ✅ orientation to specialist environments ✅ health and safety learning ✅ scenario-based training ✅ confidence and real-world readiness   If you work in medical education, healthcare training, HR, simulation or learning and development, this is packed with practical examples and ideas you can use. Watch the webinar on demand 👇 https://lnkd.in/eJgTxU2p Immersive Learning for Medical Schools & Healthcare Teams #ImmersiveLearning #HealthcareEducation #MedicalEducation #SimulationBasedLearning #ThingLink

What if one picture could tell a thousand stories? 👀✨ Meet Tarina by ThingLink. Tarina means 'story' in Finnish, and it's about to change the way you tell yours. 🇫🇮 Getting creative is as simple as... 🖼️ Take or choose an image (Including Pano to 360!) ✏️ Give your story a title. 📍 Add interactive content tags. 🎨 Make it yours! Add your voice, share your ideas, bring your learning to life and turn an ordinary image into an extraordinary interactive story. No complicated tools. No blank page. Just you, your imagination and a whole new way to share what you know. One image. Endless possibilities. Your story starts here. 🚀 Discover Tarina by ThingLink: https://lnkd.in/ef32-g46 #TarinaByThingLink #ThingLink #DigitalStorytelling #CreativeLearning #EdTech #StudentVoice #InteractiveLearning #LearningThroughStorytelling

🔬 IDEA SPARKS: Turn Science Experiments into Interactive Stories! 🧪✨ What if pupils could do more than just record the results of a science experiment? What if they could tell the whole story of their discovery? With Tarina by ThingLink, learners can capture, explain and share their investigations using photos, videos, voice and text. 📸🎤 Here's a simple classroom activity using three steps: 🩷 1. INVESTIGATE Get curious! Make a prediction, set up your experiment and capture what happens along the way. Take photos, record videos and look closely at any changes. 💙 2. STRUCTURE Turn your observations into a story! Organise your evidence, explain each stage and describe what you discovered. Did the results match your prediction? What surprised you? 💚 3. SHARE Create an interactive science experiment log that others can explore! Let classmates follow your investigation, understand your findings and perhaps even try the experiment themselves. 💡 WHY WE LOVE THIS IDEA It's science, communication, creativity and critical thinking rolled into one! Learners aren't just watching or consuming content. They're investigating, making decisions, explaining their thinking and creating something meaningful to share. 🙌 Less passive screen time. More active learning. ✨ One experiment. Three steps. A whole story of discovery. 🔗 Discover Tarina by ThingLink: https://lnkd.in/ezYiSZMA #TarinaByThingLink #ThingLink #IdeaSparks #ActiveLearning #ScienceEducation #STEMEducation #DigitalStorytelling #StudentVoice #EdTech #CreativeLearning #InquiryBasedLearning #PrimaryEducation

📍 You said, we did! One ThingLink tag can now point to multiple places. We love it when a small change in ThingLink makes a big difference to what you can teach. You asked for a way to point to several details in an image from the same tag, and it’s here! 🎉 You can now add multiple anchor points to a single Text and Media Tag, Tour Tag, Label Tag or Embed Tag. You can still customise the line colour and choose dashed or dotted lines to suit your scene. Think about the last time you had to explain a complex process. Maybe you wanted to show which parts work together, or point out every place a learner needs to check during a single step. Now you can keep the explanation in one tag and show learners exactly where to look. Support Article here: https://lnkd.in/eHDhJmD2 🔧 See a super simple multiple anchor points example in action in our mechanics garage https://lnkd.in/ekCZZEXy Thanks to everyone who asked for this. What would you use multiple anchor points to explain? #ThingLink #LearningDesign #InstructionalDesign #InteractiveLearning

🧪🔬 Step inside the science lab… without stepping inside the lab! What if learners could explore a real science laboratory, investigate equipment, discover safety procedures and build confidence before they even enter the room? With ThingLink, you can transform real-world spaces into immersive, interactive learning experiences. 🌍✨ This science lab experience brings together 360° exploration, interactive hotspots, embedded videos and guided learning, giving students the freedom to explore, discover and learn at their own pace. 💡 Imagine the possibilities: 🧪 Introduce lab safety before practical lessons 🔍 Explore unfamiliar equipment and procedures 🎥 Demonstrate techniques through embedded video ♿ Make specialist environments more accessible 📱 Support preparation, revision and independent learning It's a brilliant example of how immersive technology can make learning more engaging, accessible and connected to the real world. 👀 Explore the experience here: https://lnkd.in/euFbY6Yu #ThingLink #ImmersiveLearning #ScienceEducation #STEMEducation #InteractiveLearning #360Learning #EdTech #DigitalLearning #LabSafety #ExperientialLearning

✨ What if students could turn their curiosity into interactive stories? With Tarina by ThingLink, students don't just explore content. They create it! 🚀 📸 Start with an image or 360° scene. 🔍 Investigate a topic and discover something new. 🧩 Structure ideas using interactive hotspots, text and media. 🌍 Share a story that others can explore. In this example, a simple image of the Leaning Tower of Pisa becomes an interactive learning experience, with information, discoveries and creative storytelling added by the learner. It's active creativity in action, helping students develop research, communication, digital storytelling and creative thinking skills. 💡 Investigate. Structure. Share. Three simple steps to transform students from content consumers into content creators. 📱 Discover Tarina by ThingLink and start creating: https://lnkd.in/eP7Cbt3D #TarinaByThingLink #ThingLink #ActiveLearning #StudentCreativity #DigitalStorytelling #CreativeLearning #EdTech #StudentVoice #InteractiveLearning #DigitalSkills #LearningByCreating

📸 What if your next school tour was created by the students themselves? Sometimes the most engaging learning experiences start with a simple idea and a little creativity. ✨ In this week's Idea Sparks for Active Learning, we're exploring how students can use Tarina by ThingLink to create their very own interactive school tour. 🏫 The challenge? Show someone around your school without actually taking them there! Students become photographers, storytellers and digital creators as they: 🔎 Investigate: Explore their surroundings and capture photographs of interesting spaces and details. 🎙️ Structure: Bring their images to life with voice notes, explanations and interactive hotspots. 🌍 Share: Combine their contributions into a collaborative virtual tour that others can explore. Along the way, they're developing communication, creativity, collaboration and digital storytelling skills, with a real audience for their work. 💡 And this is just one way to turn everyday spaces into extraordinary learning opportunities. Where would your students take us on their virtual tour? Discover Tarina by ThingLink: https://lnkd.in/eYk7HiRs #TarinaByThingLink #ThingLink #ActiveLearning #DigitalStorytelling #StudentVoice #CreativeLearning #EdTech #ImmersiveLearning