Setting Up a Ning as a Virtual, Cross-Country Learning Community
Published: 04/18/11
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What are the basic steps to set up a white-label social network platform like Ning to organize a learning community that includes classrooms from other schools?
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I explain how we went about setting up the "Just War" Ning and basic steps that allowed the different teachers to stay organized for collaboration.
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I describe my use of "Groups" in Ning platform to develop student skill and familiarity both with the platform and with the norms of online discussion, prior to their engagement with students from across the country.
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I describe how, by using the "Groups" feature of Ning, my class in the Bronx was able to engage in online discussion with classrooms throughout the central time zone.
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I describe the use of organizers and closing prompts to help clarify and assess learning outcomes from participation in online discussions.
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I discuss the reasons the "Just War" project (a collaborative of multiple teachers across the country plus a professor of education) decided to use a whitelabel social networking platform to approach standards mastery of social studies with urban stu
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I describe how the "Just War" collaboration involves a number of teachers and a professor at the teaching university I attended, and how our work together has led to numerous opportunities to publish and present around the topic of tech integration.
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