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ClickN KIDS Inc is an online education company based in Carson City, Nevada
. ClickN KIDS develops and markets online educational software
to homes and in schools internationally. ClickN KIDS offers their products through a subscription based model for children Pre-K through 5th grade including older students with learning disabilities
such as dyslexia
, autism
as well as learning English as a Second Language.
and Alan Scalone, a software engineer
. Armie and Alan teamed with research professor Dr. J. Ron Nelson to develop ClickN READ Phonics. The Company debuted ClickN READ Phonics, their first product offering, at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in New Orleans in June 2004. The company launched their second title ClickN SPELL on July 1, 2009.
In March, 2011, ClickN KIDS management team announced a partnership with Warner Bros. wherein ClickN KIDS was able to use the full Looney Tunes character library in their learning platform. After 17 months of contract negotiation and an equal time for development at the ClickN KIDS studio's in Woodland Hills, CA, Looney Tunes ClickN READ Phonics was launched. With no advertising initially, it is thought that management was monitoring site performance, addressing any preliminary user concerns and seeing the impact that the Looney Tunes characters would have on the users/consumers at both the school and home level. As of August 2011, ClickN KIDS began airing commercials on North American cable networks, and it is believed that commercials featuring Looney Tunes characters are right behind. The new branded version of ClickN READ is available at http://www.looneytunesphonics.com.
proprietary interactive network server based curriculum
is unique in instructional technology
, design and teaching method
ology. The curriculum is designed primarily for use by children Pre-K through 5th grade. Schools, home users and libraries
, regardless of geographic location, comprise the market that the Company targets.
Loney Tunes Phonics uses te same award winning design and educational methodology as ClickN READ. With all the fun, animation and laughs of the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Roadrunner and Coyote. http://www.looneytunesphonics.com.
ClickN READ Phonics teaches the entire kindergarten
to 3rd grade phonics
curriculum taught at USA public schools Complete USA school curriculum through 100 interactive cartoon animated online phonics lessons. Children learn English correctly in a phonics game-like environment. Authored by research professor Dr. J. Ron Nelson for children as young as 4 years old learning to read English for the first time, older children struggling to learn to read, learning disabled children and even adults learning English as a second language.
ClickN SPELL is a research based research based spelling
program for PreK through 5th grade that teaches the 800 most commonly used words in the English language
. The program may also be used as an intervention curriculum for struggling spellers regardless of age or grade level. ClickN SPELL was authored by research professor Dr. J. Ron Nelson.
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
. ClickN KIDS develops and markets online educational software
Educational software
Educational software is computer software, the primary purpose of which is teaching or self-learning.-Early History, 1940s - 1970s:The use of computer hardware and software in education and training dates to the early 1940s, when American researchers developed flight simulators which used analog...
to homes and in schools internationally. ClickN KIDS offers their products through a subscription based model for children Pre-K through 5th grade including older students with learning disabilities
Learning disability
Learning disability is a classification including several disorders in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner, usually caused by an unknown factor or factors...
such as dyslexia
Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid...
, autism
Autism
Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their...
as well as learning English as a Second Language.
History
The company was founded in 2003 by Armie Carabet, an entrepreneurEntrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
and Alan Scalone, a software engineer
Software engineer
A software engineer is an engineer who applies the principles of software engineering to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers or anything containing software, such as computer chips, work.- Overview :...
. Armie and Alan teamed with research professor Dr. J. Ron Nelson to develop ClickN READ Phonics. The Company debuted ClickN READ Phonics, their first product offering, at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in New Orleans in June 2004. The company launched their second title ClickN SPELL on July 1, 2009.
In March, 2011, ClickN KIDS management team announced a partnership with Warner Bros. wherein ClickN KIDS was able to use the full Looney Tunes character library in their learning platform. After 17 months of contract negotiation and an equal time for development at the ClickN KIDS studio's in Woodland Hills, CA, Looney Tunes ClickN READ Phonics was launched. With no advertising initially, it is thought that management was monitoring site performance, addressing any preliminary user concerns and seeing the impact that the Looney Tunes characters would have on the users/consumers at both the school and home level. As of August 2011, ClickN KIDS began airing commercials on North American cable networks, and it is believed that commercials featuring Looney Tunes characters are right behind. The new branded version of ClickN READ is available at http://www.looneytunesphonics.com.
Products
ClickN KIDS, Inc. develops interactive educational software for children that closely simulates live teacher instruction. ClickN KIDS patent pendingPatent pending
The expressions "patent pending" or "patent applied for" refer to a warning that inventors are entitled to use in reference to their product or process once a patent application has been filed, but prior to the patent being issued or the application abandoned...
proprietary interactive network server based curriculum
Curriculum
See also Syllabus.In formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults...
is unique in instructional technology
Instructional technology
In education, instructional technology is "the theory and practice ofdesign, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning," according to the Association for Educational Communications and Technology Definitions and Terminology Committee...
, design and teaching method
Teaching method
A teaching method comprises the principles and methods used for instruction. Commonly used teaching methods may include class participation, demonstration, recitation, memorization, or combinations of these...
ology. The curriculum is designed primarily for use by children Pre-K through 5th grade. Schools, home users and libraries
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
, regardless of geographic location, comprise the market that the Company targets.
Loney Tunes Phonics uses te same award winning design and educational methodology as ClickN READ. With all the fun, animation and laughs of the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Roadrunner and Coyote. http://www.looneytunesphonics.com.
ClickN READ Phonics teaches the entire kindergarten
Kindergarten
A kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...
to 3rd grade phonics
Phonics
Phonics refers to a method for teaching speakers of English to read and write that language. Phonics involves teaching how to connect the sounds of spoken English with letters or groups of letters and teaching them to blend the sounds of letters together to produce approximate pronunciations...
curriculum taught at USA public schools Complete USA school curriculum through 100 interactive cartoon animated online phonics lessons. Children learn English correctly in a phonics game-like environment. Authored by research professor Dr. J. Ron Nelson for children as young as 4 years old learning to read English for the first time, older children struggling to learn to read, learning disabled children and even adults learning English as a second language.
ClickN SPELL is a research based research based spelling
Spelling
Spelling is the writing of one or more words with letters and diacritics. In addition, the term often, but not always, means an accepted standard spelling or the process of naming the letters...
program for PreK through 5th grade that teaches the 800 most commonly used words in the English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
. The program may also be used as an intervention curriculum for struggling spellers regardless of age or grade level. ClickN SPELL was authored by research professor Dr. J. Ron Nelson.
Main characters
- ClickN KID : The main character for ClickN READ Phonics
- Cosmo Cat : The main character for ClickN SPELL
- Professor Whizbot : The Teacher for Looney Tunes Phonics
- Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Road Runner, Yosemite Sam, Tazmanian Devil, Wiley E Coyote : Some of the featured Looney Tunes characters as seen in Looney Tunes Phonics.