What is Kidlink?
Kidlink is a project born in 1990 thanks to the collaboration of a a group of teachers from different countries and based essentially on voluntary service. It is hosted on a Social Network site, a unique on-line environment that allows teachers and students to collaborate in projects by providing a wide range of easy-to-use features and functions. The main goal of Kidlink is helping children through the secondary school level, to be involved in a global dialog .
The Kidlink Project is runned by the Kidlink Association (KA) created in december 2008 in Göteborg, Sweden. Read the KA AofA clicking on this link.
Why Kidlink?
Kidlink , through its projects and activities, promotes dialogue, exchange and collaboration among the youth, using computer and multimedia technologies. It removes those cultural barriers due to the distance between countries. It aims at the diffusion of a culture of sharing and participating. It helps teachers to organize and carry out projects. It increases contacts and promotes a continuous up-dating for teachers.
Here are some reasons why you should choose Kidlink:
- All our services are moderated
- Online support to students and teachers in one of our Forums
- Easy-to-use tools for posting and communication
- Our services are completely free of charge
- Our volunteers are either teachers or experts in the use of ITC in didactics
- Our projects can be developed in various languages
- We offer opportunity to participate in a wide range of multilingual projects
- Our volunteers have a very long global dialog experience.
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How it works?
Teachers and students can either participate in the numerous collaborative projects or promote their own project through our forum.
To be able to accomplish this, is it necessary for the participants to register for the Kidlink Project and present themselves by answering a few questions in their profile. See more about this below.
Kidlink participants create content directly in our site with an easy to use editor. They can then write comments on other youths' work, very much like in a blog.
Once the students create their own content from school or home, their teachers or one of our moderators must approve the work before it is made public. The shared management feature makes it easy for many classroom teachers to work in the same projects and check and supervise the work of their students
Youth are allowed to search for epals and read other youths profiles. They can contact each other through our kidmail, a special protected email service and through our kidcom, a protected chat environment.
Moreover, they can interact with each other by inserting comments and annotations in the web pages of the online materials with the approval of several moderators.
Adults, other than moderators are not allowed to contact our youth. But adults are invited to help out in approving youths work and comments. As you have read, Kidlink depends on volunteership.
Kidlink: How to partecipate?
To participate in our projects you have to register. Read more about this in .About registration.