I am truly enjoying facilitating the ThingLink Teacher Challenge this summer because it has allowed me to connect with some amazing educators. We are all learning, creating and sharing together. 

One of the early challenges was to Design Your Digital Self as an introduction to other participants. We started by creating an avatar, then we added it to ThingLink and tagged our images with Rich Media tags to define ourselves through multimedia.




I used Padlet to create a wall of ThingLink Teacher Challenge participants and would like to introduce readers of this blog to these amazing educators. The activity itself can be used with students as you kick off the school year and establish best practices for Internet safety as you teach them about protecting their identities when publishing anything on the web. 

Meet the ThingLink Challenge Participants

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Created with Padlet

For the best viewing experience, view the full wall on Padlet

Why Padlet?

Benefits of Padlet at a Glance

• Padlet is a free, flexible and user friendly tool that is available online, 24/7
• Users can create account and design Padlets for a variety of purposes for teaching and learning. 
• Students can contribute to Padlets without an email address, just tap to add an image.
• Padlet works well on a computer and also from the web browser on an iPad. 
• There’s no tape or physical space limitations with these types of word walls.
• Padlet is capable is displaying text, images and video.
• Padlet can be embedded into a blog, wiki or website.
• Padlet supports ThingLink interactive images!

Join Us

There’s still time to join us and take the ThingLink Teacher Challenge. This free, online professional development activity is self-paced to fit in with teachers’ busy summer lifestyles. There are no deadlines and each challenge is designed to be flexible. New participants are joining every day.

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