Monday, November 16, 2009
Ning
My favorite thing that we have done in this class so far was create our own website using Ning. Our website for our CEP class was created by our professor using Ning and it is extremely useful. Assignments can be posted, links, power points, pictures, videos, blogs, polls. Pretty much anything you could ever think of. Our class website also has a tab for the syllabus and a course gallery page where assignments and completed assignments are displayed in a grid format. I know I will definitely use the website I created using Ning in my own classroom. I think a personal website is more useful then a blog, a wiki, a twitter and everything else we have learned in this class. Creating the website using Ning was also super easy to set up and edit. There are about a million backgrounds you can choose from and they have some really cool options. You can add a bunch of different tabs and sub tabs as well to make navigation easy for your students. I think having a class website is a great thing to have especially for communication between the classroom and home. Parents, grandparents, guardians, whomever could also have access to the website so they could see what was going on in their child's classroom and help stay connected. I can't even really think of any downsides to having a class website at the moment especially because I am pretty sure you can make your website private, so only people you want to have access to it will be able to view it.
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I liked a lot of what you said. I agree that the ning website is the most useful thing we have learned so far. I think that in the future, most if not all classrooms will have websites. It's good that we are learning now how to make one. I also think that the ning site offers a lot of options for personalization. Through ning, teachers are really able to make their sites unique!
ReplyDeleteI love NING in CEP 416. I am really glad Tae uses it. The course website is well organized with assignments, and PowerPoints. It really is user friendly. I too think it is more useful to have in the classroom over blogs and twitter. Although it isn't my favorite thing we have learned. I feel like we have used, and learned, a lot of different tools to use and over the semester I have developed biases. Since I have been working with weebly.com all semester for my portfolio, I have become comfortable with weebly and I think I would make a course website there before I would use NING. But all in all, I agree when you say NING was a useful site to learn about.
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