A Mash up Thinglink and Tellagami

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/726202719706021889  

I wanted to do this assignment because I wanted to experiment with creating something like this for our library at school.  I thought it would be a great informative piece to add to your school's website.   You can make it as detailed as you want, put up pictures, add the hours, tell about the resources and services and explain how you do things there in the library.  What a great resource to have!  It's informative for everyone (parents, students and staff).  

When I initially looked into Thinglink I honestly didn't take a whole of time to experiment with it, I just jumped right in.  I first uploaded some school library pictures that I had and then went into making a library floor plan.  I used SmartArt in my Word document program.  The plan was very basic.  Once I had the floor plan finished I could only save it as a "pdf" or as a "Word document."  I found out though that if you use the "Snip It," tool it will save it for you in the correct format (sends it to OneNote), which I believe was bpg or jpeg, not sure.  Once saved in this format I was able to upload it directly to my Thinglink site.  

Tagging the photo was a little more complicated.  It's very easy to tag just with words, you simply pick the part of the photo you want to tag and give it a name and it's there.  Using Tellagami was a little tougher.  I had to put Tellagami on my phone (takes a lot of storage space) get my character situated and bring up photos of our library on my computer. I then chose the camera setting and took a photo of it with my Tellagami directly in front of it.  Once I did that I chose the microphone button and recorded her saying what I needed her to say.  After that I had to "finalize," my Tellagami video and then upload it to YouTube in order for it to have a URL code.  You had to have URL code in order to tag your photo on Thinglink.  That is the ONLY way it will upload, unless maybe you upgrade to a version you have to pay for.  Once I figured about the URL code, things went pretty smoothly.  It took maybe two and half hours to get it done.  This was having never used the program before and using it with Tellagami

What I liked most about this project was that it was free.  It was a little tough figuring out the work arounds, but once I did I have to admit I felt pretty good about myself.  I really think this would be something I would do for my library (once I have one) because it's so useful.  You can bring it up on a tablet, or a website and so many questions can be answered right then and there without ever once saying anything to anyone!  It's amazing the great website services out there-Thinglink is definitely a winner and it's made better when mashed with Tellagami.  I will definitely be using the two again.