Using Ning for Educational Social Networks
Erin Wyatt's Page
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- Location:
- Illinois
- Organization:
- Highland Middle
- Occupation:
- School Library Media Specialist
- Website:
- http://www.d70schools.org/hlc
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Welcome to the community for those using Ning to power their educational social network. Also be sure to check out Classroom 2.0 for general discussions of Web 2.0 in the classroom.
Please introduce yourself in the "Introductions" forum post. And to see a list of Ning networks being used in education (or to add yourself!), please visit Social Networks in Education.
And have fun!
Please introduce yourself in the "Introductions" forum post. And to see a list of Ning networks being used in education (or to add yourself!), please visit Social Networks in Education.
And have fun!
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I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this virtual ning network is no exception. My name is Marco Morales; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham,MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. I found you worked at a middle school, and since our project is specific to middle schools, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.
Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.
Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!
Thanks,
Marco Morales
marcotuts@gmail.com
Website, IM, Skype, Twitter = marcotuts
I just saw you were a member of the middle school group and that you are a library media specialist. I'm a middle school curriculum cooridnator and our librarian and I were discussing the future the other day. I'd mentioned something about developing a multi-media lab and she said well what would you need there that we haven't got already and what would you want the kids to be able to do thatthey can't already and we ended up realising that the perfect world would be where students have access to everything except hardcopy resources online and technology integrated into the curriculum so they did most of their subject based work on the spot in the classroom. We are wanting to do one of those technological leapfrogs and get around spending a lot of money on setting up stuff in thelibrary only to have the next whizz kid tell us that it's all going away from media-centres now and more towards integrating things into the classroom. Any ideas? We're looking to send someone out to do some research too. Any help would be great!
Thanks
http://tuakaucollegelibrary.blogspot.com/
Alison
Oooops - I did change the library blog address - to
tuakaulibrary.blogspot.com - I had better change it on my profile!!
Alison
I'm just contemplating getting a group of student (I'm in a middle school) reviewers to read, write, and share opinions about new books that we get at the school library. I'm trying to decide if a blog or a wiki would be the best forum for this and provide the easiest access for others to get to the reviews. Any opinions?
Best, Erin
I have started using a blog for our school library - you can check it out at - http://mrs-cs-library-blog.blogspot.com/