Using Ning for Educational Social Networks
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You will need to put a date that makes them 13. I have students use pseudonyms. Any student registering with a last name is suspended from the network until they change it. You can also have students who don't have emails use their parents' email ad…
I read the variety of ways you can counter the problem of signing up under 13 on ning for educational networking. Thanks for the ideas.
Lisa, Thank you for this information, it is very helpful, however, when I was testing out the Ning sign up, I'm getting the questions date of birth, if I put in someone 12 it will not accept. Am I missing something?
Kelly as far as my understanding of COPPA law goes, as long as the under 13 yr olds do not post any personally identifying info (w/out parental consent on file) and you do not collect an email address from them you should be fine. Personal identifyi…
Hello,
I'm really interested in the Ning, with 7th and 8th Graders, but some 7th Graders are not quite 13. Did you encounter this issue with your 7th Grade? I have put a Ning together, and ready to roll it out, but I'm not sure about the under not…
You're welcome. Plus setting up students in this manner allows the teacher to monitor all NING activity (forum post, group discussion posts, email/inbox messages) b/c teacher can set up all students' settings to send email notification of everything…
Thanks this is a useful trick to know.
An email address is required for creating Ning logins. A work around for signing up students without email accounts is creating a gmail account for yourself. You can then use this email address with a variation added to it. For example, if your gmai…
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- At 6:41pm on March 14, 2009,
Russel Montgomery said… - Did you get an answer to your question about creating student log ins?
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- Location:
- Oregon
- Organization:
- South Lane School District
- Occupation:
- Teacher
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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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