Ning in Education

Using Ning for Educational Social Networks

Connie Weber

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Project Zero in action: an educational utopia, of sorts

I spent a couple of days with my study-group leader from Project Zero. I went with her Alma College students up north. There we visited Long Lake School in Traverse City Schools (of northern Michigan), a kind of educational utopia. This is a school that applied for and received a grant for educational transformation through the Department of Education Arts Education Model Dissemination.

Students at this school use "thinking routines;" they use them often, and well, and at all ages. When… Continue

Added by Connie Weber on November 28, 2007 at 7:24am — 2 Comments

some baseline questions

One month into the Switchover. Evolution of a homeroom class. November 20, 07

Some baseline questions:

What really constitutes copyright violations? Is this a nebulous thing? Are there rules that hold true throughout this flux of ownership, this age of extreme increase of information flow and accessibility? If someone could give me a simple answer, I'd be grateful. What's ok, what's not? What can we post, legally?

Can we post Youtube videos on our class network? (Why i… Continue

Added by Connie Weber on November 20, 2007 at 2:55pm — 5 Comments

Welcome

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.

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