Tech Talk with Audrey

When people think about interactive multimedia, their first thought usually goes to videos or web pages with built in links.  One of my favorite types of interactive multimedia is actually based in images.  We can use images like digital anchor charts or infographics as the foundation for interactive, digital lessons.  I love using interactive images to house all of the information that I want to share with students in a lesson.  This gives students the opportunity to work at their own pace and minimizes the number of "clicks" that are needed to complete a lesson.  Today, I am going to share two of my favorite ways to create interactive images that are easy to make and share with students. Thinglink Thinglink is one of my favorite discoveries from my grad program!  Thinglink allows you to upload an image, place hotspots on it, and add links, videos, images, or text that appear when students hover over or click on the hotspot.  The free version of...

Am I the only one that remembers those "choose your own adventure" books?  I remember reading them over and over again so that I could see what would happen with every possible scenario.  I recently learned that the "choose your own adventure" format is a great way to create engaging, interactive lessons for your students.  You could use this to design your own educational games, teach students while comparing and contrasting different topics, and create many different types of review assignments that give students immediate feedback.  The "choose your own adventure" format is also a great way to allow students to work at their own pace and develop their self-directed learning skills.  You can use Google Forms to create these online for your students.  When you start creating a "choose your own adventure" assignment, it is a great idea to outline each of your questions, the responses for each, and how you plan to connect them to previous question...