Using Ning for Educational Social Networks

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ADA Compliance

Hi everyone, We are using the Quality Matters Rubric for assessment of our online courses and because I teach in Ning rather than a CMS tool, I failed the assessment because NING is not ADA compliant. QM requires that: The course incorporates ADA standards and reflect conformance with institutional policy regarding accessibility in online and hybrid courses. Course pages and course materials provide equivalent alternatives to audit… Continue

Added by Mary Hricko on August 1, 2009 at 10:04pm — No Comments

Projects for the summer

Hi everyone, Rigt now my library is getting ready to be renovated so I will be busy on working with the K-12 community on several projects involving online education. I will be working on some grants with area K-12 schools and will be busy with two upcoming conferences: The Teaching Professor and SALT. Continue

Added by Mary Hricko on April 13, 2009 at 6:43pm — No Comments

Assessment of Ning Class

Well, the assessment is out...ning has proven to be a successful classroom environment for my online students. Last semester, I taught my online course in ning rather than using the university cms tool and met great success. Despite the semester being over, my students have requested that we keep the class site up so they can continue not as classmates, but as a social networking cohort group interested in edtech. How many times does that happen? During the semester, I measured the amount of i… Continue

Added by Mary Hricko on January 14, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

Social Networking in Education Apps

Still plugging away on my research project invovling social networking applications in education.

Next semester, I am planning to teach using NING instead of my courseware app to measure the differences etc. This past semester I taught my sections of my course in the courseware, a wiki, and Sakai. I decided to swutch over to the social networking tool for mext semester to see how it works with my students.

So far, I'm in the construction phase. It should be interesting to see ho

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Added by Mary Hricko on January 24, 2008 at 7:36am — 6 Comments

Research in social networking

I am trying to engage in a lit review of social networking and its impact on learning outcomes. I am not finding anything related to the technology tools, but all sorts of materials in communication studies.

So..I am on a quest and will begin compiling a bibliography of what I find for you to note. Please add to this bibliography if you visit my page.

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Added by Mary Hricko on October 18, 2007 at 11:52am — No Comments

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