edesignlabs/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.

linky's Issues

Create Sample Scavenger Hunt Activities for Educators

Create Sample Scavenger Hunt Activities for Educators as a baseline of how Linky can be used.

Add character limit to connections

It is possible for some students to enter far too much text when adding a connection, which disrupts the layout of the board to which the connection is posted.

To see an example of this, navigate to an installation of linky which is backed by a live copy of linky.sql. Visit the Freedom of Religion theme on the Civil Liberties board (/boards/6/categories/29). One connection (the one which begins "In response to cyberbullying...") contains nearly 1500 characters, compared to an average of about 200 characters for the rest of the connections on the page.

Recommendation is to limit the number of characters in a connection description. 250 characters would be a reasonable limit.

Responsive Design

Tweak design/interaction to better suit different devices

Photo alterations

Allow students to alter their image (i.e: crop them, add filter, drawn on them etc...)

Context-specific modes

Build different modes/interfaces for different contexts (i.e: in-class exercise vs. field trip vs. homework)