The Socially Networked Classroom: Chapters 5 & 6
While reading through chapters 5 and 6 in the Socially Networked Classroom. My attention was drawn to the teacher who used Ning to create a private social network for her classroom, allowing students to post and comment on research they were working on as a group. I think that this is a fantastic idea. So, of course, I tried to go to Ning.com and create a new login and a new page to try this feature out. They wanted a lump sum of money to use their program after the free trial, which wasn't very long. So, I went and found one that is free to use, Tumblr. Tumblr was easy to use and figure out how to make a new community that was private. It did come with a warning that if I did make a private community, I could never make it public. That is probably a good thing when it comes to security issues, especially with students. I just thought it was interesting that it could never be made public. I made an initial welcoming post on the community page. There are links right on the home scr...