Before I read this article I had no clue what Ning was. I learned that Ning is a website that helps users create a new type of social media or social networking site. Ning helps you design a website and promote and build it. People use Ning for different reasons, some use it to create webpages similar to Myspace or Facebook. Others use it for keeping in touch with different sorority or alumni events. Some users may even use it to promote different products. Ning makes it very user friendly for registered users to join. They simply let the user put in the information they want and create a new page. Because ning is so user friendly and personal it would be great for students in middle to high school to create their own pages and learn about the importance of safe social media and acceptable uses. I would love to see this used in technology classes.
Educause Learning Initiave. (n.d.). 7 things you should know about ning. Retrieved from https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7036.pdf
Hi Alexandra,
ReplyDeleteI was in the same boat as you, before reading that article I had no idea what Ning was. I thought maybe it was a typo for “Bing”. I have never been big on the idea of letting student’s access social networking sites at school. After rereading the article and checking out the actual website I think it would be interesting to try using Ning in my middle school technology classes. Thanks for posting! -Chris