ThingLink is a remarkable device that will help students to develop their speaking skills, brings storytelling to a new level: the platform for students to construct digital media is a picture or video. To create a multimodal tale, students use an image as the base and add links to videos, information, audio, maps, and additional photos. ThingLink includes interactive hotspots that allow viewers to click and explore a particular subject.

Asking students to make something using ThingLink provides them with an opportunity in a virtual environment to employ comprehension, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Students need to strategically select and embed elements that help make their story easier.

Perhaps it's a map that is interactive with content related to a series of wars, or the history of colonization in the region, combined with particular-era music and art. Perhaps students studied about the author or being able to add tidbits of knowledge about the life and writing of that person. Even teachers may use these tools as a way to coordinate unit resources by creating an engaging experience with an image or video.