/linky

What if students could collect images from their everyday lives and connect them to concepts learned in class? Linky is a web-based app that allows teachers to scaffold learning of systems thinking via interactive themeboards.

Primary LanguagePHPMIT LicenseMIT

Linky

Linky is a web-based app that allows teachers to scaffold learning via themeboards in their classrooms and encourages k12 students to connect personal or found images with in-class learning, project homepage.

Install

  1. Import sql file linky.sql
  2. Change database info in app/config/database.php
  3. Create folders for CakePHP caching with writing permissions
  • app/tmp/cache
  • app/tmp/cache/persistent
  • app/tmp/cache/models
  1. Linky uses WideImage for manipulating images. WideImage can be updated using Composer, which comes pre-istalled in this repo. To update WideImage run composer update in app.

License

This project was grown out of EDesign Lab and released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for detail.

EDesign Lab is a collaborative of educators and technologists to prototype new forms of digital learning for k12 public education. This prototype has been developed through a rapid design cycle, user tested with youth, and built with a focus on educator and learner voices/ needs. Our goal is to offer a blueprint for digital learning applications; we encourage contributions to this project as well as independent forks that can change the future of education.