Using Ning for Educational Social Networks
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Replied Mar. 19, 2008
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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!
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And have fun!
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You have touched on a very critical point. We recognize that professional development is a valuable tool that currently happens rarely, and requires a ton of overhead. Organizing and setting up teacher workshops takes time, and doesn't reach all teachers effectively. Professional development is one of our main long term goals. Unfortunately we won't be focusing on this in the first couple months of development to make sure we get the curriculum development/planning and basic platform for teachers, parents and students down right.
Sorry for not getting back sooner, I'll be better about checking this site from now on.
Thanks,
Marco
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, originally from San Diego*, and now a 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 grew up living in Tijuana, even though I went to school in the US and most of the rest of my family lives in the states.