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January 25, 2008 at 12:33 pm · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged:

I followed a trail of links from somewhere (can’t remember where I started) and ended up at Vicki Davis’s Cool Cat Teacher blog.  She has a lot of interesting stuff to say about using social networking tools in education.  She’s instigated projects such as Flat Classroom, and she uses Ning networks among other things.  (I’d like to find out more about using these, I’d never heard of Ning until this SMIELT course started.)

It’s hard to keep up with everything I’m hearing about at the moment, there is so much that is new and interesting.

Anne asked (in a comment) which tools she should use for her group of German teenage girls.  Could Ning be the right thing and if so, how would she find a partner class?

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  anne wrote @ January 28, 2008 at 1:30 pm

Hi Lucy, I checked out Ning. Idea of a social network centered on a topic is nice. Will ask my students what they think. They might be phased just by the signing up.
Saw the EFL courses there and noticed that there wasn’t much going on in them – members aksing for a teacher to come and correct their mistakes. Hello?!?
There are soooooo many networks: http://my.mashable.com/links/network.
Anne

  suzant wrote @ January 29, 2008 at 12:22 am

Hi Lucy, I am very much a “fan” of Ning networks, particularly when contemplating working with school students. On http://classroom20.com I think there is a group called global collaboration, where your friend could put out a request for a partner class.

  anne wrote @ January 29, 2008 at 8:48 pm

Hi Suzan – wow, this is wonderful – thanks so much!! Anne

  mellersh wrote @ January 30, 2008 at 9:08 am

Suzan, thanks for the pointer, that classroom20 looks really interesting, and I see that my friend Anne has already joined the Ning in education group http://education.ning.com/

It might be worth checking out http://www.voxswap.com which is an educational network for language learning. Haven’t really looked into it properly myself yet.

  Joao wrote @ February 11, 2008 at 12:19 am

Hi Lucy, thank you very much for your comments and suggestions on my blog and also for the bookmarks in del.icio.us. I really appreciated it.
Joao


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