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"Closed" Ning? for the classroom. How "closed" is closed?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Chris Fritz Jul 16, 2009. 28 Replies 0 Likes
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Chris Fritz replied to Deb O'Brien's discussion '"Closed" Ning? for the classroom. How "closed" is closed?'
Thank you! I'm hoping to have our class website ad-free soon. :-)
Karen replied to Deb O'Brien's discussion '"Closed" Ning? for the classroom. How "closed" is closed?'
My understanding is that you can request an ad-free Ning from Ning if you are using it with students (not adults) for educational purposes. They seem to be pretty strict, but it is worth a shot. Here are the instructions:…
Nancy Bosch replied to Deb O'Brien's discussion '"Closed" Ning? for the classroom. How "closed" is closed?'
He said he'd be glad to help--I told him to be on standby!!
Meagan replied to Deb O'Brien's discussion '"Closed" Ning? for the classroom. How "closed" is closed?'
Nancy,
Thanks so much for the info! I hope to be in touch with your "Drupal expert" soon!
Thanks,
Meagan : )
DeAnn Gaddis replied to Deb O'Brien's discussion '"Closed" Ning? for the classroom. How "closed" is closed?'
I am new to blogging, Classroom 2.0, all of it. I just finished my first year of teaching 5th grade. I used the link you posted and was very impressed with your site. I was looking at setting up a ning site for my class. I didn't realize there…
Oliver Quinlan replied to Deb O'Brien's discussion '"Closed" Ning? for the classroom. How "closed" is closed?'
I haven't ignored it yet!
Thanks for the info =)
Oliver Quinlan replied to Deb O'Brien's discussion '"Closed" Ning? for the classroom. How "closed" is closed?'
So is that something in their terms of service that you have to be over 13? You can disable elements though cant you? I was thinking of keeping it simple at first and adding blogs, groups etc slowly as they learn to use it properly..
Nancy Bosch replied to Deb O'Brien's discussion '"Closed" Ning? for the classroom. How "closed" is closed?'
You have to be 13 to use ning. A teacher would be asking for trouble, IMHO, with kids younger than high school. There are so many nooks and crannies--IM, personal blogs, uploading pics and videos, chat (in some cases) forum, etc. A teacher would…
Deb O'Brien replied to Deb O'Brien's discussion '"Closed" Ning? for the classroom. How "closed" is closed?'
Thank you, Raman. I will look for that.
Raman Job replied to Deb O'Brien's discussion '"Closed" Ning? for the classroom. How "closed" is closed?'
One other thing to remember, Deb, is to disable the "share" button on your closed Ning for absolute privacy. If a student uses the share button to email another person a page of content--even in a closed Ning--an invitation will go out to…
Tammy Moore replied to Deb O'Brien's discussion '"Closed" Ning? for the classroom. How "closed" is closed?'
With Ning, if you set your Ning to a private one, you will lose the ability to set up RSS feeds going out from it. It is logical, I suppose. How private is it is someone can feed posts out to other websites using RSS? But, if you are like me, I…
Deb O'Brien replied to Deb O'Brien's discussion '"Closed" Ning? for the classroom. How "closed" is closed?'
Thanks Steve,
I have begun a closed ning and I believe I'm getting the same results you've had in that I cannot link to other sites from this closed ning site. That's a good thing.
I'd take you up on the offer to have a little…
Nancy Bosch replied to Deb O'Brien's discussion '"Closed" Ning? for the classroom. How "closed" is closed?'
Here is an 'easier said than done' solution--use Drupal or Wordpress to design your own blog/wesite then serve it privately. You will have to pay for the server (as low as 5 dollars a month) but you have complete control. Here is our class…
Steve Ediger replied to Deb O'Brien's discussion '"Closed" Ning? for the classroom. How "closed" is closed?'
I just checked out a ning that I created. It does not seem to let me out of it to see other nings. I had to leave it and open a new tab to get to others, so if you lock access down to only it in your Internet filter, I think that you'll be fine.
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