According to Ning's help website, Ning is: "a platform for creating your own social network." Basically, Ning is a web 2.0 application that is entirely hosted on Ning's web servers and allows users to create their own interactive website about a particular topic and the ability to share comments, pictures, videos, Blogs, and forum discussion topics.
Some Ning's are public others are private. Making a ning site private is a good way to control who has access to seeing your ning site and allows for more security. A private Ning site requires new users to request to join and the Ning creator/administrator must grant access to the person who requests before they can see any content.
Here are some examples of Ning sites that have already been created to help get you started:
Ning
According to Ning's help website, Ning is: "a platform for creating your own social network." Basically, Ning is a web 2.0 application that is entirely hosted on Ning's web servers and allows users to create their own interactive website about a particular topic and the ability to share comments, pictures, videos, Blogs, and forum discussion topics.
Some Ning's are public others are private. Making a ning site private is a good way to control who has access to seeing your ning site and allows for more security. A private Ning site requires new users to request to join and the Ning creator/administrator must grant access to the person who requests before they can see any content.
Here are some examples of Ning sites that have already been created to help get you started:
http://caiuoc.ning.com/
http://kindergarten-teachers.ning.com/
http://secondgradeclub.ning.com/
http://elementaryteachersnetwork.ning.com/
http://fifth-grade-teachers.ning.com/
http://www.classroom20.com/
West Perry's District Ning:
http://westperrysd.ning.com/
Really Good Ning site (Very active users):
http://connectedclassroom.ning.com
http://classblogmeister.ning.com
http://toolsfortheclassroom.ning.com/
http://thebigfour.ning.com/
http://cffconnections.ning.com
.created by: Ryan Shumaker, Director of Technology, West Perry School District.