| What is learning-lincs?
learning-lincs provides a teaching and learning environment in which teachers and students are able to share and compare activities based around a common theme. The online thematic project activities are designed to integrate and enhance existing curriculum planning.Each project provides teachers with weekly tasks for their students to work on. At the end of the week the work is published to the project web site for reflection by others. Subscribers are provided with the online tools and resources to support this work.
These include:
- Project Guides
- Text, data and image publishers
- Curriculum Extension Activity Guides
- Data collection sheets
- Project based worksheets
- Project based website links
Project Planner
Use the Project Planner to plan your sequence of online projects. Some projects are ongoing and can be joined at any time. Others are planned to set dates to enable immediate comparison of participating students’ collected data.
Project Resources
Each project is supported with a Project Guide. This gives clear guidance for each step of the project. Additional files, program templates, web links and extension activities, which extend the project across a range of curriculum areas, are provided to subscribers only.
Project Publisher
The project publisher is the online tool used to present the students’ work. A template is provided for each week of the project on which students enter, edit and refine their work. Once complete, the work is displayed to a wider audience using the password protected publishing tool.
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What are the benefits to learning?
- The projects provide learning opportunites to all students regardless of their ethnicity, culture, socio-economical background or ability.
- The projects provide engaging, enriching and enjoyable activites that support established programmes of study.
- Students develop an awareness of the wider world.
- Students develop a knowledge and understanding of, and a respect for, other cultures and lifestyles.
- Students are part of an international classroom where they are able to share learning opportunities with students from all over the world.
- Students are able to prepare and publish their own work.
- Students are able to share and reflect on real life experiences.
- Students are able to reflect on the effectiveness of their own work and that of other students.
- Students learn at first hand the importance of considering the audience when providing information.
- Students are provided with opportunities to make comparisons using ‘real’ data.
- Through the website students are able to share their work with their parents/carers, other family members in any part of the world.
- Parents/carers are able to discuss the work published on the project website with the students.
How to take part
To take part in the projects you need to subscribe to learning-lincs. Once you have joined you will be able to enrol a group of students on a project. The group could be a class or other combination of students brought together to take part in the project. More than one group of students within a school can be enrolled for each project.
Three levels of subscription are available:
Standard subscription will allow up to eight groups of students to take part in projects during the year.
Enhanced subscription allows up to 12 groups of students to take part in projects during the year.
Unlimited subscription will allow you to register as many groups as you need to any of the projects during the year.
To subscribe to learning-lincs click here.
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