Tool: Tackk
Cost: Free
What it does: Create digital “posters” or pages that are easy to create and navigate. A variety of media and web tools can be incorporated as well. Other users can use the commenting feature to add content, comments or questions.
Integration Ideas:
- Use it to gather resources for a lesson
- Flipped Learning
- Post a video or article, have students respond to a question asking them to provide evidence(web resource, image, video, etc) for their response.
- Students can use Tackks to share information
- Share classroom information with parents
- Present information to students
- Share students work and connect with others
- Create Digital Portfolios
Accounts for Students?
- You don’t technically need an account to publish a Tackk, although any that are created without an account expire after 7 days.
- Students under 13 can publish anonymously through the use of a code, provided by their teacher. If they want to go back and edit, they must be using the same device they created it on. Learn more here.
Example: Here is a Tackk I created to share information about TPACK. I used it for a course that I teach online, before using the Tackk I had all of the information on a single page in the course space, I thought the Tackk made the content more visually engaging and allowed others to easily add resources or comments.
What I love about it…
- Can easily be embedded in other webpages, blogs, or wikis
- You can embed many other tools (find some options here)
- Ease of creation and navigation
Resources
- How to Use Tackk in Your Classroom: A Tackk created by TackkEdu, including real examples of how teachers have used Tackk in the classroom.
- Tackk Education Page: Resources, ideas and tips for teachers
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