A couple of weeks ago I discovered Ning. I started playing around as I do in every new tool I find. I created a TeacherLibrarianNetwork. But I couldn’t find any buddies around and didn’t know exactly what to do or who to play with. I posted my first forum question. I was lonely in Ning.
But . . .
Yesterday, Terry Freedman invited me and the other contributers to Coming of Age 2.0 to the Ning social network he set up to plan the project. Now I get it. I can see my new friends’ faces. The forum is alive. Folks are sharing. In fact, through this space I found Chris Smith’s (Shambles) new video resources that I will share in a separate post so folks will really notice it.
Ning is the only online service where you can create, customize, and share your own Social Network for free in seconds. You can make it public or private and for anything - and anyone - you’d like.
This tool has real potential for use in any group work. I think it may work for classes and clubs too. And it plays nice with all the other 2.0 tools.
And, BTW, I haven’t been playing with the TeacherLibrarianWiki for some time. Please remember that our community is welcome to build this tool. (I’d love to see it adopted by graduate classes!) Please email me and I will send you a password.
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Dear Joyce
I read your blog and use your resources all the time and have been waiting to see if you turn up in either library20 or classroom20 on ning. Last week Will Richardson joined Classroom20. I have asked a question already and responded to a few on this network. It is too bad that each of these two communities are separate and then yours is yet a third. I hope that there will down the line be some way to integrate all these separate entities. Keep up your good work.
Check out Library 2.0 in Ning. http://library20.ning.com/
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