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Flink Learning - Annual School Subscription (10+ Schools) (Mac / Win)
Product ID: 1523587
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Student 
School Improve grades and help kids enjoy learning.
Make classroom learning interactive and fun.
When a school subscribes to Flink Learning, all the students in that school can access 400-500 Flink Learning pre-made activities in school or at home (or anywhere they have access to the Internet) and all the teachers in that school get Flink Learning subscriptions, which provide access of thousands of Flink Learning pre-made activities and the ability to create their own learning activities and share them with their students and their colleagues.
A school subscription includes the following features:
- Administering the subscription
- FlinkPlay activities
- FlinkMake authoring application
- Creating teacher communities
To administer the school subscription, the school administrator logs in to the www.flinklearning.com web site by entering his or her email address and password in the two boxes directly below the Home Tab and clicking the LOG IN button. The administrator then clicks the MY ACCOUNT Button to access the school’s Admin Page.
The administrator can change his or her account information (such as email address and password) and add teachers to the school’s subscription. Click the NEW button to add a teacher to the school subscription. Enter the teacher’s email address in the User Name box and click the SAVE button. The teacher has been added to the list of subscribers. If the teacher added to the list does not already have an account with Flink Learning, Flink Learning creates an account for that teacher, assigns a random password, and emails the teacher that a Flink Learning account has been set up with the generated password. Teachers added to the list also get an email indicating they have been added to the school subscription. Names on the list can be deleted but not edited.
Flink Learning Activities
When a school purchases a school subscription, the school will assign a username (the teacher's email address) and a password for each teacher. When teachers log in to the www.flinklearning.com web site, they access the thousands of pre-made activities on any school computer by clicking the FLINKPLAY button. All the students in the school can use 400-500 of the Flink learning activities at home, in the public library, or anywhere they have access to the Internet. This url can be a link on the school's web site or a teacher's web site, or both. Students go to the school or teacher web site and click this link to Flink.
FlinkMake Authoring Application
Teachers can easily and quickly use FlinkMake to create their own interactive learning activities for their students. FlinkMake allows teachers to create individual activities by adding their own content to an existing activity template. They can preview activities as they create them, but students play the activities teachers have created in a player called FlinkPlay. Students play activities by "going" to the teacher's FlinkPlay url. To make it easy to copy the url, the url is always visible on the Edit Activities page.
Teachers can paste it into an email or a web page link. If teachers email the link to students, the students copy and paste it into the browser's address bar and then bookmark it. Then they will always have easy access to the activities teachers make for them. If teachers put the link on a page in classroom or school web site, students simply go to that page and click the link to play the activities.
Creating Teacher Communities
It is possible to share activities teachers create with other teachers in their school. All Flink Learning subscribers belong to communities and the activities they create are associated with at least one of their communities. Teachers automatically belong to two communities:
Private Community: Activities associated with a Private community only are private to that subscriber; no one other than the subscriber can access these activities.
Flink Learning Community: This is the most public community, as everyone who subscribes to Flink Learning belongs to this community. The more activities that are associated with this "global" community, the more activities that will be available to all Flink Learning subscribers.
Flink Learning does not create communities (other than the Flink Learning community). Any subscriber can create a community. A community can be of any size, for example, five firstgrade teachers in a school or fifty teachers in a school, or all the teachers in a district. To create a new community, teachers enter the community name and the community password on the Community Tab in FlinkMake. To enable people to join the community, teachers must tell others the community name and password. If teachers want to create a "private" community, they give the community name and password to only those people they want to belong to the community. If they want to create a "public" community, they put the community name and password in a more public place, such as a school or district web site.
All teachers do to join a community is enter the community name and the community password on the Community Tab in FlinkMake. Communities are created by subscribers and are open to anyone with the community name and password. Flink Learning has no control over which communities are created and who can join them.
There are a number of ways in which communities restrict what they can do with activities, both those they create themselves and those created by others that they share.
Edit Activities: Teachers can only edit activities that are "theirs," that is, that are in their Private community. No one else can edit activities in their Private community.
Duplicate Activities: If teachers want to share activities written by others that are associated with communities to which they belong, they need to duplicate those activities. When they duplicate an activity that is associated with a community other than their Private community, that duplicate activity is associated with only their Private community. They can use that activity as is or make whatever changes to it they wish, but they can never associate it with any other community than their Private community. This restriction is to prevent multiple copies of virtually the same activity, making it difficult to distinguish among activities when teachers search for activities.
Today's schools have two fundamental problems Flink Learning subscriptions can help to solve:
- Increasing student test scores, and
- Saving money.
Increase test scores by:
- Personalizing learning
- Targeting to standards
- Involving parents
- Engaging students in their learning
Save money:
- Replacing consumables with electronic
- Enabling teachers to author
- Providing sharing among teachers
Personalizing learning
One way to increase student test scores is to personalize their learning, that is, to provide students with activities that are specifically appropriate to them. Flink Learning has 4,000 activities and the ability for teachers to make and share activities, making it possible to assign activities to students that are appropriate to their personal needs.
Targeting to standards
One way to increase student test scores is to provide students with activities targeted to the specific standards with which they are having difficulty. Flink Learning has 4,000 activities and the ability for teachers to make and share activities, making it possible to assign activities to students that are targeted to the standards with which they are having difficulty.
Involving parents
One way to increase student test scores is to involve parents in their students' learning. When a school subscribes to Flink Learning, students have access to Flink Learning's 4,000 activities, as well as the activities created or shared by their teachers, at home for free, enabling their parents to become more involved in their learning at no financial cost.
Engaging students in their learning
One way to increase student test scores is to engage students in their own learning. For many students, graphically-appealing interactive software is more engaging than printed texts and worksheets. All of Flink Learning's activities are graphically-appealing interactive software.
Replacing consumables with electronic
One way for schools to save money is to replace expensive paper consumables with less expensive electronic supplementary materials, such as Flink Learning activities.
Enabling teachers to author
One way for schools to save money is to enable teachers to create their own interactive software activities, reducing the need to purchase commercial curriculum materials.
Providing sharing among teachers
One way for schools to save money is for teachers (within a school or within a district) to share activities they create with each other. In addition to these sharing communities, Flink Learning subscribers are automatically members of the Flink Learning community and can share learning activities written by teachers throughout the United States. Sharing of activities reduces the need of schools to purchase commercial curriculum materials.
