Recently, I discovered Tackk, a new way to post and share content online. It allows you to create an attractive one-page design that can incorporate content from over 250 online sources, including ThingLink (as in my example below), YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, SlideShare, Google Maps, Prezi, and more. You do not need to create an account, but if you don’t, your Tackk will be deleted after a week.
(Scroll down to see the full Tackk.)
I have found Tackk to be very easy to use with many options to customize your work so you can get your Tackk to look just the way you want it. You can also turn the ability to comment on or off. One feature I especially like is that Tackk has partnered with 500px. If you need to add a photo to your Tackk, you can search 500px and the photo credit will be automatically added to your Tackk.
Applications for education: You could use Tackk to present content, give assignments (as in my example), but even better, you could have students create their own Tackks as evidence of learning. For example, students could each create ThingLink to examine various aspects of a problem and then combine them into one Tackk to provide an overview of the issue. You can create Tackkboards (collections of Tackks) for your students to post their content.
I tried to use Tackk with my high school students because I thought it was fool proof. I want my students to build their Tackk 8 stages, but they forgot their password and their hash tag. It was not as fool proof as I thpught.
Thanks for your comment. Forgotten passwords are a nuisance, but they are a fact of life today. If the kids have phones, they can keep track of their passwords there, or they could use the Forgot Password link to regain access to their account. Since Tackk supports Google logins, students in schools with GAFE accounts should be able to log in easily. If kids forget to add the appropriate hashtag, isn’t that the same as forgetting to put their name on a paper before handing it in? In any case, when I have students do projects like this, I always provide a checklist of required items to diminish the chances that these are left out. It doesn’t completely eliminate all problems, but it helps.