For more information, contact:
Carolyn McMaster
Executive Producer
Linkworks Inc.
(403) 283-2090
mcmaster@linkworksinc.comLinkworks is a multiple media producer, with significant television, feature film, documentary, and new media experience.
The company has recently begun development of several web-based educational programs. The first two projects focus on western North American history and cultures (Echoes from the Pass, aimed at a Grade 4-6 teacher/student audience), and on early childhood English literacy (Tilley Adventures in Reading, aimed at a Grade One teacher/student audience).
Both these programs, and web-based educational programs to follow (including an extension of the Tilley series to encompass Grades 1-6), are based on Canadian and U.S. provincial and state curricula, national standards, and international best practices. All our web programs are created by a talented team of experienced curriculum specialists, writers, editors, designers, illustrators, and programmers.
We are looking for (1) potential distributors in all markets; (2) partners in non-English-speaking markets (the Tilley series could easily be reconfigured to accommodate ESL needs in a variety of linguistic and cultural settings); and (3) co-production partners interested in discussing possible joint web-based educational initiatives.
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Click here to visit the Tilley site.
Making full use of the extensive Internet connectivity most of our schools enjoy from coast to coast, the Tilley Adventures in Reading series is designed to provide early elementary students with engaging, interactive, highly educational programs, specifically created to support proven best practices regarding how children best learn to read.
Each Tilley “webstory” provides children with a compelling storyline. As Tilley and a lively cast of support characters move through the narrative, students are presented with challenges they must overcome to allow the narrative to continue. As they succeed - and the program provides them with all the tools and support they need to do so - they master the skills necessary to lay solid foundations as effective readers.
Click here to visit the Frank Site
The Frank Slide tragedy of 1903 affords a particularly poignant – and powerful – basis for the consideration of the implications of human activity on the physical environment, and the importance of fully understanding our environment. It also serves as a compelling backdrop against which to consider issues such as population distribution and conservation, which are also important elements of the curricula Echoes will support.
Echoes from the Pass is a highly interactive online student and teacher resource, supported by a television documentary of the same name. Echoes is closely aligned with Alberta Grade 4 Social Studies Topics A (Alberta: Its Geography & People), and B (Alberta: Its People in History). The resource is also supportive of selected elements of Manitoba Grade 6 Social Studies (Life in Canada’s Past, specifically Units IV and V), and British Columbia Grade 5 Social Studies.
Echoes from the Pass takes students to Frank, Alberta, a booming coal mining center located in southwestern Alberta’s Crowsnest Pass area at the start of the 20th century. As students visit the virtual Frank, they will have opportunities to learn about the waves of immigration that swept into western Canada during the latter half of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th centuries. Through a focus on the specific groups who flocked to Frank – the immigrants and the Blackfoot people who were the original occupants of the region – issues of particular importance in the aforementioned provincial curricula will be presented for study and consideration.