Ning in Education

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Permalink Reply by Sandy Hirtz on November 2, 2009 at 10:14am

Hi Yumi,
My son (grade 7) has a NING network he set up for his class. NING generously removed all the ads for FREE.
Under manage and features, you can remove the badge.
Admins can send private message to any member of the community.

Good for you starting a NING community for your students.

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Permalink Reply by Yumi Nakanishi on November 2, 2009 at 11:32am

Thank you so much for your quick reply!

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Permalink Reply by Brian Licata on November 2, 2009 at 6:50pm

I use a ning site with my 7th graders MrLicata.ning.com I customized following of activity but it matters how you set up the main page. Private messages can be sent to any member friend or not. Is your site public?

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Permalink Reply by Yumi Nakanishi on November 3, 2009 at 5:09am

Ours is not public. We are planning on using Ning with our 7th graders as a way to teach about social networking. We would like each 7th grade advisor/teacher to monitor the activities of only their advisees. What's the best way to do this? How have you set it up? We want to do more than just follow the Latest Activity updates.
Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Yumi Nakanishi on November 5, 2009 at 7:28am

Still having trouble sending a private message to a member who's not a friend. Our site is not public, does this have anything to do with it? How are you able to send private messages?

Thank you again,
Yumi

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Permalink Reply by Vicky S on November 2, 2009 at 9:32pm

I'm just curious how you can use Ning with 7th graders since many of them will be under 13 - at least when the year starts.

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Permalink Reply by Yumi Nakanishi on November 3, 2009 at 5:11am

Most of our 7th graders are already 13, and we have our site as a private one, although I don't know if that matters or not.

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Permalink Reply by Dee on November 3, 2009 at 1:54am

Hi Yumi,

You can remove the Badge, click on the Manage tab, click Featyres. Drag the Badges block off the site

You can send an email to a private member other than your friend. Click on the Inbox, Select Compose. Type your message and select from the Members page who you want to send an email to.

You can turn off any or all email notifications coming from your social network from your Email Settings page. To get to your Email Settings page, click on the "Settings" link in the right column of the page. Click the Email tab.

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Permalink Reply by Yumi Nakanishi on November 3, 2009 at 5:13am

Thank you! I will look into emailing members on our network who are not friends with me.

I do know about the email settings. Is there a way to receive email notification for only certain member activity? We would like our 7th grade advisors/teachers to monitor the activities of only their own advisees/students. Is this possible?

Thanks so much!

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Permalink Reply by Yumi Nakanishi on November 5, 2009 at 7:26am

Hi Dee,

I was able to remove the Badge successfully. Thank you!

I'm still unable to email a member on our network who's not a friend. I followed your instructions, but can't figure out how to enter or select the member as a recipient. Only my friends come up in my list of possible recipients. Is there way to manually enter or navigate to a member on the network?

Thanks again,
Yumi

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