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NING with Diane Krause http://diannekrause.wikispaces.com/ningpreso [] Nings do contain ads…free sometimes gives you ads…email NING and ads can be taken off if you are an educator Teachers can customize their NING and students get their own profile page that they can customize Closely related to facebook set up NING in School Personalized One stop shopping Comment on photos, blogging, videos, groups for projects Even if it is a public NING the groups can be private Synchronous and asynchronous: there is a chat room. Everyone gets a voice Global collaboration: schools could invite people from around the world to participate Differentiation piece: projects can all be loaded Check out Presi for presentations…cool effects and set ups In NING you can lock out pages… [|http://wissahickon.ning.com] username: wsdning@gmail.com password: guest box.net to hold files that you want to share with others discussion forums/ comment walls/ blogging/ Discussions are more robust in NING than in Wiki Upload a movie, review it, and directly below it you can peer edit and comment directly on it Great way to practice for the real world…you can take things off NO TALKING BY ANDREW CLEMENTS Lots of space in NING…videos, photos, uploads… NINGS for you (all linked on Dianne’s website) Ning.Classroom20.com Ning.peteandc.org Paeducators.ning.com