University Post-Grad Field Trips Move Online: Defying Student Expectations With Award-Winning Results
See how students use virtual field trips to visit 10 locations around Northern Ireland with interactive virtual tours.
School District Creates Library of Interactive Resources in ThingLink for schools to share
New Caney ISD added ThingLink to their roster of online learning resources in 2020 and it soon became a valuable tool with many applications. We spoke to the Director of Digital Learning about the many different ways the district has been using the tool throughout their schools.
How Museums and Technology Are Collaborating
With technology merging with museums, you don’t just view art, but you live it. See how technology can capture the attention of audiences.
ThingLink and Instructure Announce Partnership Bringing Interactive Learning Experiences to the Canvas Community
ThingLink and Instructure are delighted to announce that they are working together to offer educators easily managed and accessible, interactive learning experiences. The partnership will initially offer the global educator community a new engaging way to become Certified in using Canvas, the leading platform for managing learning. ThingLink, a pioneer in interactive learning with multimedia, is the first partner Canvas has chosen to feature in their Certified Educator program bringing new benefits to their participants. Educators in the program will: Learn about getting the most out of Canvas with new interactive resources Have first hand experience of the power of interactive media Learn about new more contextual ways to engage their students from visualizing a course structure to scenario based …
Scenario-Based Learning in Virtual Environments
Scenario-based learning is a popular method for developing operational skills for complex work environments — but what is scenario-based learning in virtual environments?
10 Reasons to Get ThingLink’s New eLearning Solution
Are you looking for solutions to boost your employees’ online training experience? Are virtual tours and workplace simulations next on the list of productivity tools you want to try out? If yes, we have a handy eLearning solution to help your company achieve optimal learning results and motivate your employees more. Immersive, easy-to-create workplace simulations will make your employees more job-ready and save you precious time and money in logistics, translation, and content production. Simulation tools help companies boost their productivity in many ways, but they also motivate employees to practice new skills and capabilities in a risk-free environment. Let’s take a closer look at why now is the time to invest in a better online learning experience. Workplace Simulation …
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Introducing Anchors For ThingLink Tags
Point Your Viewers In The Right Direction! We’ve heard from some of our fans in our ThingLink communities that sometimes the icon for a tag can obscure important parts of an image in your base media. This can be a problem for some who use intricate or detailed base images such as maps, diagrams and medical illustrations. The ThingLink Development Team has come up with a winning solution to help with this pointy problem in the form of anchors for your tags! Anchored Tags in Action Instructions: Adding an Anchor to your Tag* *This functionality is available when accessing the ThingLink Editor through your browser. Add the Tag of your choice Enter your Tag content e.g text & media, tour …
ThingLink Announces A New Scenario Builder Product for Next Generation Learning and Development
The demand for more engaging learning solutions soars and organizations turn to create digital twins of their products, processes, and facilities. To respond, ThingLink introduces a new scenario builder product for quickly creating gamified 360-degree and 3D immersive learning experiences for any platform including virtual reality (VR). The ThingLink Scenario Builder is an authoring tool for recreating real-life learning environments and situations in the cloud using interactive media. Developed along with the principles of Scenario-Based Learning (SBL), it allows educators to combine 2D, 3D, and 360-degree media into branched scenarios where learners can choose their path and move through a structured learning experience, exploring content, answering questions, and collecting points. For ThingLink, the new Scenario Builder product is a logical …
12 ThingLink Editor Updates That You Have Been Waiting For
Read about the latest feature releases on the ThingLink editor. From zooming in, to polls and UI enhancements.
Launching new Layouts!
Our versatile Text and Media Tag just got even more stylish! We are delighted to share our newest development: ten new attractive layout options. Our Text and Media Tag is considered to be the most versatile of ThingLink tags enabling you to add text, audio, images, videos and even gifs in any combination. This enables you to create attractive multi-modal ways to engage your audience. This tag type also provides readability and translation options, the description text is available to be viewed with the incredibly powerful accessibility tool Immersive Reader. As well as now being able to choose from 2000 tag icon variations, ThingLink now offers creators styling options with new layout options to suit the presentation of your media. The layout options …
3D Bear joins ThingLink’s Certified Partner Program
We’re excited to share 3D Bear has joined ThingLink’s Certified Partner program. 3D Bear, the provider of immersive classroom technologies and professional development, helps schools adapt new technologies and develop inspiring pedagogic content in VR and AR. Through the partnership, 3D Bear gets access to ThingLink’s new eLearning solution, which makes it easy to build branched scenarios and immersive simulations from real-life places and situations. “3D Bear has valuable experience in helping customers to choose the right solutions and develop content that paves the way for wider adoption. We look forward to collaborating in groundbreaking projects across Europe”, says Ulla-Maaria Koivula, the founder and CEO of ThingLink. “Thinglink’s easy-to-use VR authoring tool has been proven to be pedagogically powerful and has …
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Pitch presentations now support ThingLink
Pitch, the popular collaborative presentation platform for teams, now supports ThingLink interactive media in their presentations. The support for ThingLink embeds, including interactive virtual tours and 3D models, became available for Pitch Beta users this week. Why this is great news to Pitch and ThingLink users? If you use Pitch for external or internal training, you can now make the experience much more engaging by adding interactive videos or virtual tours in between your text and image slides. If you use Pitch for marketing and sales, your deck can now contain an interactive product demo or a visit to a virtual showroom. Being able to add interactive media to presentations is a popular request we get in our support. ThingLink …