Ning in Classroom Sandbox?

Anyone interested in starting a "sandbox" to see what ning would be like as a network for our elementary students? I think this would be a way to see how the system might "break" or what "holes" there are (I always loved playing the problem student in my teaching classes, now I can do it online). Seriously, we could set up a network, or networks for some "dummy students" using gmail+append accounts, then find out what students can do and if we can keep track of it?

Gordon, Kevin, whaddya say?

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Permalink Reply by SusanTsairi on July 19, 2007 at 5:35am

replying to myself here, I just went ahead and created a teacher account there,- (I'm having a bit of a problem authorising it - because Israel isn't one of the countries on the list) anyway it seems I can invite "sponsored adults to share with me and my class - so if anyone is interested...send me your mail throught the messaging system.

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Permalink Reply by Cathy on July 10, 2008 at 10:10am

This looks great Susan. Thank you for sharing.

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Permalink Reply by Alice Mercer on July 19, 2007 at 9:31pm

Okay, I started the newtwork, BUT it's not working, broken, etc. I have a question out in the forum about it. If it isn't resolved tomorrow, I will start a new one tomorrow evening. Sorry for delays, etc.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin H. on July 20, 2007 at 4:25am

No problem
I just didn't know if I had missed it.
Also, I just listened to your It's Elementary Podcast -- very nice. Great work!
Kevin

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Permalink Reply by Alice Mercer on July 20, 2007 at 8:50am

Okay, go to: http://c20sandbox.ning.com/

and see if you can join. I'd say, trying joining as yourself, and with your dummy account.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin H. on July 20, 2007 at 12:31pm

I am in and I have created and posted, and received email via my gmail.
Seems to work fine.
Kevin

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Permalink Reply by Connie Weber on July 21, 2007 at 4:48am

I'm on, with two identities... Kind of fun!

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Permalink Reply by SusanTsairi on July 21, 2007 at 9:18am

I'm in as myself and myfakeself - enjoying the experiment so far, but interested to see what a private network wold be like.

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Permalink Reply by Greg Noack on July 20, 2007 at 3:47pm

You should check out the TechCamp network here. http://techcamp.ning.com/

It is a network for two grad classes Meg Ormiston taught this summer. We used Ning everyday, all day. It was very handy for uploading work for Meg to assess as well as share with other students.