Regular readers will know that I’m an advocate of maximising the technologies that we already have at our disposal, I’ve even facilitated some online and f2f sessions around this subject in which I encouraged people to look under the bonnet of the tools and platforms that they already had.
One of the tools whose ‘hidden functionality‘ I’ve discussed in the past is Flickr’s ability for people to be able to add ‘hotspots’ to images and then add text to those hotspots, here’s an example. Whilst this is a great idea, the fact that you have to be logged in to the Flickr account where the image is hosted in order to be able to add the annotations is something of a drawback, add to this the fact that when you then embed the ‘tagged’ image away from Flickr, the hotspots disappear and you have a limiting platform….
Enter ThingLink…
ThingLink allows you to tag images that:
you have uploadedare within Facebookare within Flickrhave a url associated with themare within your blog or websiteOnce you have tagged these images, you can them embed them within a blog, site, intranet, LMS, VLE etc aaaaaand allow others to add tags too (if you so wish) – no more having to share Flickr account login details with others. Here’s one I prepared earlier. I’ve made it editable so please feel free to add some annotations, links, videos etc of your own.
How might you be able to use this platform within your own organisation?
What advantages and disadvantages can you see?
Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section below
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