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Mar25
Ning as a Social Media Teaching Tool

I've been using Ning for a private social network to connect my committee at the WAA - but I've never actually thought of it as free teaching tool for Social Networking - yet, apparently, it can be that as well according to a post on Edelman Digital titled Instructor's Notebook: Ning As Teaching Tool

As various classes worked together in developing a final project, they've sometimes selected social-network-creator Ning as the platform to try out ideas. It's flexible and has most of all the right moving parts:

  • Social networking
  • Groups
  • Forums
  • Blogs
  • Video/Music
  • Network Updates
  • RSS (mostly)
As such, I've become a big fan of Ning. With the use of the RSS-integration box, I can also teach integration with other services.

In Fall 2008, I'll be teaching an undergrad class at a local college. (More news on that front as it develops.) I plan on using Ning there as well.

Ning allows you to have a completely open network, or a private one. In terms of what I'd select for my undergrad students, I keep vacillating between the two.

Would be interested to know where the course that's mentioned above is being given. 

 

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Hey, Marshall,

Thanks for stopping by!

The classes I mention above are, at this time, given to Edelman consultants and their clients. (And I wish I had these tools available to me in 2004 or so when I was guest lecturing at SFSU!)

That said, in the Fall, I'll be giving a course on online communities at a local college here in Chicago. I'm not *quite* ready to tell everyone exactly where, but that'll certainly be disclosed in due course (and will likely provide endless amounts of good fodder for the "Instructor's Notebook.")

Cheers!

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