Blogging and Ning

In response to questions from Kirsten Morton, who is a classmate of mine at CU-Denver, Tony Karrer, eLearning Technology, wrote about blogging as part of a classroom experience. I commented on his blog to point him to Brent's blog so he could see that there were more students in the class than the four linked in Kirsten's blog.

From his blog, Sue Waters, Mobile Technology in TAFE, found mine and read my most recent post about Ning. From reading Sue's blog, I discovered that she has a Ning social network for people interested in eTools and Tips for Educators. According to the site,

This group has been set up for the Video in e-learning session for e-Tools and Tips September series of How To Session for 2007 E-learning Networks Community Forum.

Initially we'll be discussing video good practices however we plan to keep this site going and expand it to include other cool tools for e-learning for education and training.

On her blog, Sue also refers to a 31 Day Blog Project that she participated in. (A scaled-down version of this could work for a class where students are required to blog.) One participant in the project started a Ning social network for members of the group.