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Martina Henke

Steve Hargadon: New Ning Plans: The Good, The Bad, and the Unknown - 1 views

www.stevehargadon.com/...lans-good-bad-and-unknown.html

ning Web2.0

shared by Martina Henke on 04 May 10 - No Cached
  • Martina Henke on 04 May 10
     
    Preliminary Analysis of the changes coming in July at Ning!
  • Martina Henke on 04 May 10
     
    Ning will stop being a free service in July. Here are some thoughts and details about this transition from Steve Hargadon, creator of the Classroom 2.0 Ning.
John Trampush

Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: The World's Largest English Department - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...01ning.h03.html

ning collaboration professional development web2.0

shared by John Trampush on 18 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Steve Hargadon, the creator of the popular Classroom 2.0 Ning, believes that social networking portends dramatic changes for teachers. "There are huge ramifications for teacher professional development," he says. "It is hugely positive. Social networking creates an easy place to enter and use, and literally within five minutes you're up and running with a community."
  • The English Companion Ning, launched by acclaimed English teacher and author Jim Burke in December of 2008, is a prime example of social networking's potential to galvanize teachers.
  • Burke's Ning exceeded his expectations for a virtual meeting ground. In roughly six months, The English Companion Ning, which Burke refers to as "the world's largest English department, without the meetings," catapulted to close to 6,000 members of all ages and levels of teaching experience from five continents
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  • Removed from the teacher's lounge or a faculty meeting and bolstered by the detachment the Internet affords, teachers are posting organizational techniques, lesson plans, book lists, videos, photographs, and even personal confessions about their classroom failings to a captive, ready-made audience
  • A Ning group for English teachers reveals the potential of online social networking to break the culture of professional isolation.
Steve Ex

Building Social Understanding and Civic Efficacy - 2 views

www.socialstudies.org/...powerful

social studies civic engagement 21st century skills social studies literacy

shared by Steve Ex on 20 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Steve Ex on 20 Nov 09
     
    This article is an articulation by the National Council for the Social Studies of vision for teaching civic efficacy. Intermittently alluding to 21st century skills, it is less powerful than the media literacy position statement. The media literacy statement itself needs fleshing out; I look forward to exploring the NCSS ning for evidence of such progress among members.
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