ThingLink is a website that allows users to add clickable links within photos and videos. Links can be as simple as a bit of descriptive text that pops up when a student clicks on a part of an image, or they can be links to websites, videos, or sound files. 

For example, a user could use ThingLink to generate a virtual tour of a school by adding links to a blueprint or map that when clicked open YouTube videos shot at different location on campus. Perhaps a teacher wants to draw students’ attention to specific parts of a human skeleton. The teacher could upload an image of a skeleton to ThingLink and then insert links on the image in exactly the right spots a student should click.

ThingLink offers free accounts as well as more feature-rich paid accounts. Teachers can use a free account to add links to images and them embed the resulting ThingLink image in their learning management system or elsewhere. ThingLink is a really easy way to add interactivity to images or video, and it can help teachers create more engaging content for their courses.

 

To see your raw HTML code in action you must save your work and refresh the page. If the page becomes unreadable, add ?safe_mode to the end of the URL and load the page again.

<img style=”max-width:100%” src=”//cdn.thinglink.me/api/image/603548128452280322/1024/10/scaletowidth#tl-603548128452280322;1043138249′” class=”alwaysThinglink”/><script async charset=”utf-8″ src=”//cdn.thinglink.me/jse/embed.js”></script>

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• February 04, 2016
• by Rob Caldwell
• software