Ning

=Ning - Social Networking= Creat your own Social Network

Ning is an example of a social networking option.

[|Ning Website]
Ning Video by Ning's CEO Gina Bianchini [] More [|Ning Video]

Ning Workshop link []

My Examples of a Ning sites ... still learning
NECC Ning [] Classroom 2.0 [] SMARTboard Revolution [|http://smartboardrevolution.ning.com]Teacher Librarian [] KinderBlog Ning []

My Graduate Class [|Web 2.0 Class] Ning [] My School Ning []

Education Network Examples
[|Independent School Educators Network] [|Classroom 2.0] [|School 2.0] [|Coming of Age] An introduction to the NEW worldwide web.

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 * 1) Quick and easy way to connect with others with similar interests.
 * 2) Lots of opportunites for various sharing of photos, videos, podcasting,music and discussion.
 * 3) Provides a learning community where life-long learning continues to happen.
 * 4) Ning includes the ability to add a blog.
 * 5) Ning is different than most social network sites becuase it offers educators several control features: Strict control of network membership (public or privat), the ability of administrators to remove or edit content created by any user, the flexible control of network, minimal information requirements for user sign-up, ad-free networks for K-12 classrooms, and the reporting of all network activities. (M. Fernandez, 2/15/09)

=IDEAS FOR THE CLASSROOM= = = =Articles and more= []
 * School Communication tool (similar to a Facebook model?)
 * Book discussion and exchanging favorite book titles authors and world wide pen pals.
 * Idea exchange for teachers allowing a social online collaboration environment.
 * Adventures in Web 2.0: Introducing Social Networking into My Teaching