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So far my classroom ning has not been as successful as I had hoped. I really thought my students would take to it and write volumes about what they were doing and why they were doing it. But the reality is that they just didn't - and their output and reflections were much the same as when we just used notepad.

They have now started on their first major project and so I am hoping they will be more inclined to diarise their progress. Of course, I will need to encourage them by providing some more… Continue

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I eventually got all of my students onto my 12imedia ning site. One of my students said something like "Oh this is just like myspace only it is just ours".

Of course we had the filter for social networks on (cathednet myinternet filtering) so I put in an exclusion for "12imedia.ning.com" which worked well except when they went to join, the special non-machine readable set of characters came from another location so the students could not see the graphics file. So now "ning.co

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This thing called Ning has got me thinking.

Last year I introduced my students in Interactive Media to Bloggs and used Tumblr (http://www.tumblr.com/) because it easily let my students add not only text but photos, quotes, links, chat, audio and video. As well I could follow them and they could follow me. I also used RSS feeds to my pageflakes account to aggregate this into one window. See my Tumbr blog here

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Well, this is a supprise. Last count there were 39 members already and we have only been here a few days. I am also impressed with the diversity of those who have joined. I would like to see all members have some sort of image or avatar of themselves even if it your pet dog. (Don't dogs often reflect their owner?)

I must admit that I am still having fun trying to get the site to do what I want it to but so far I am impressed. For example, I thought

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