NING as a Teaching Platform?

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Permalink Reply by Meg Ormiston on June 24, 2007 at 11:07am

It was wow!
Really immediately published for everyone to see. One person posted and teh rest were off and running. I think the quaility is also good.

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Permalink Reply by Mary Hricko on June 26, 2007 at 12:31pm

I'm planning on teaching with the NING platform. I am using it now to facilitate a learning community for faculty development and for organizing an online conference.

Since we all can't make f2f meetings on a regular basis, I figured this is a good tool to use.

Since I need help finding an open source gradebook (Anyone?) I'm not certain how I would set up a gradebook in ning. I am not too thrilled with the idea of having to create one from scratch that ensures the same type of security as a CMS tool. I'm thinking I'll use ning for everything, but a drop box for assignments.

Ning allots just about everything that a CMS tool has: discussion forums =discussion board, space to post links, lecture notes, audio lectures, visuals, media etc.
I can use the group tool for group assignment spaces--the individual pages for student portfolio pages--I see great potential in this tool.

However, there's the great FERPA privacy issue---how do I ensure that student content is private? I'm not so certain how I will secure that.

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Permalink Reply by pete whitfield on June 26, 2007 at 1:29pm

Gradebook - not sure this is exaclty what you want but have you tried a spreadsheet in google docs? I've not seen anything free and more sophisticated but that doesn't mean it's not out there! Privacy - you can choose to make your ning network private when you create one, though I think everyone in that community can see every other user's material.

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Permalink Reply by Lino Oliveira on June 27, 2007 at 2:04pm

Hi Meg

I teach technologies at an university in Vila do Conde, Portugal.
I have all my classes at our Moodle Platform.

Next academic year I plan to use several web 2.0 tools to complement Moodle activities.

I wil use
- Moodle for content
- Moodle, wikis, blogues for assessments (works in group)
- Del.icio.us to suggest sites
- Slideshare to publish powerpoint presentations
- Flickr anf YouTube to store multimedia content to be referenced

Social Networks as Ning will be used to discussions and communities basically for motivation of students. These are tools students are accustomed.
Ning is interesting because its easy to permalink a reply or subscribe a discussion using a RSS feed.

I am thinking also in experiment Second Life.

As you can read in my ning profile, I am doing a PhD with this subject.
So I am also interested in a research paper :-)

I would like to suggest two important reports about using Web 2.0 in Education:

MILLER, Paul ? What is Web 2.0? Ideas, Technologies and Implications for Education. JISC Technology and Standards Watch, February 2007.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf

THE NEW MEDIA CONSORTIUM and EDUCASE LEARNING INICIATIVE ? The Horizon Report 2007 Edition. California, 2007. ISBN 0-975087-4-5.
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2007_Horizon_Report.pdf

Regards from Portugal.

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Permalink Reply by Meg Ormiston on June 27, 2007 at 7:02pm

Wow!
Thanks for joining us! There are number of people in our group researching various Web 2.0 applications. Many of them are her in our group and some are in classroom 2.0 (also in the Ning platform)
Thank you for the ideas for future reading, I look forward to learning more!
BTW< please join me in Second Life, strange, BUT I see the power of education!!
Thanks for joining our discussion!
meg

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Permalink Reply by Kevin H. on June 28, 2007 at 2:36am

Wow
That Paul Miller paper was wonderful on many different levels. It really provides a solid grounding into the architecture of the Web 2.0 world and then considers what may come next.
Thanks for sharing, Lino.

Kevin

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Permalink Reply by Nadine Norris on June 29, 2007 at 6:10am

Hi Meg,
I checked out your tech camp ning. It is really great. I'm glad it worked out so well for your class. It seems that you have really "inspired" a great group of teachers. I made a post, I couldn't resist. I hope I wasn't intruding. Based on your success, I think I would try using ning as a professional development tool. I'd be interested to know what you would change next time around.

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Permalink Reply by Meg Ormiston on June 29, 2007 at 7:21pm

Thanks Nandine,
So amazing! I just wrapped up week 2 of tech camp a still can't believe the amazing products produced by my class. I will say, I love NING!!
I love the ease of uploading video, images and files, from a teaching perspective it was wonderful!! More when I rest!!
meg

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Permalink Reply by Simon on October 2, 2007 at 12:07am

Hey Meg,

Is there anything that you thought ning lacks that would have made it better?

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Permalink Reply by Reynard on November 18, 2008 at 10:02pm

Hi Meg, I just happen to stumble on this old discussion. Have you heard of Haiku LMS? (www.haikuls.com). Looking at what you have done with your website, it looks like Haiku LMS would be a perfect tool for that job.

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Permalink Reply by Simon on November 18, 2008 at 10:16pm

You may find that setting up a private classroom at www.clivir.com to suit your needs.

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Permalink Reply by Scott McDaniel on January 9, 2009 at 11:55am

Hi Meg,

I really would love any feedback you had from doing this post - Did you teach the class on Ning and how did it work? How was it recived and did you and the participants find it improved the overall quality of the instruction significantly?

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