Ninging May 19, 2009
Posted by Matthew Woolums in Tools.trackback
I had the opportunity to work with Ning today. There is a curricular group that wants a way to facilitate conversations around social studies units. We looked at Ning, partly to take advantage of the threaded discussions, and partly because there are ways to sort members into different kinds of groups. I found the experience to be more ‘face-book’ social than I expected. That isn’t a good or bad thing, just an observation. For people who are ‘face-book’ familiar, the experience should be pretty easy. For others, the experience might be a little difficult from a concept perspective. I think the project is workable, at least I’ll do what I can to help make it successful.
What are your experiences with Ning? Are there other, better tools to use for organizing groups of people, converse in threaded discussions, share documents, etc.?
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I was just thinking of writing a blog post on Nings. My problem is that I forget which ones I’m in and don’t really keep up with them. Is there a way to get rss feeds? It seems to me that they’re the kind of thing that you need to check up on regularly and I just don’t.
I had another session with Ning and the Social Studies group today. As long as the forums is viewable by the public, there are RSS feeds for each category and each discussion. Works pretty well.