Ning


 * First Step: Read about Ning and join one. **

**Ning is a wonderful platform for forming a learning community, but I think it essential to be active in one before you have a go at creating one for your school community. Immersing yourself in an online community gives you an idea of what is required to sustain conversations and a high interest level for your members to ensure return visits.**

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What is a Ning? How can it be used to form a Learning Community in your school and beyond?

**Articles explaining Ning**

[|Online social networking for educators] **Published in neatoday 2009 (Cindy Long)**

[|Ning in Education] **Using ning for educational social networks**

[|7 things you should know about.... Ning] **Great advice from Educause Learning Initiative.**

Top Ten Reasons - Why Ning **Excellent wiki providing advice for using Ning**

[|Liz Davis' Diigo links to sites about Ning] **Liz is an American educator who uses Ning.** ** Nings you can join **

[|Classroom 2.0] **A ning created by Steve Hardagan for educators exploring Web 2.0 for their teaching practice. Great Professional Development provided through this Ning.**

[|English Companion Ning] **-a ning for English teachers**

[|Working together 2 make a difference] **- a ning for educators interested in service learning initiatives. I run this Ning!**

[|PE Geeks] **a ning for PE teachers interested in using technology in their PE classes

[|The Future of Education] Lots of great ideas about where education is headed. They offer Professional Development opportunites through Elluminate on occasion. Created by Steve Hardagon (he is also responsible for Classroom 2.0)

Why would you use Ning in a school environment? **

[|So, how's that Ning going?] **My post outlining the progress of our Yr 9 Ning in its initial weeks and why I think it is relevant for education.**

[|Why Ning needs an ad free education platform] **My post explaining what it says!

[|Participatory learning - the Ning steps up a notch] My post describing the entry of expert voices (authors) into our Yr 9 Ning.**


 * [|Lurker or Contributor, or maybe Innovator] My post about participation in social networks and impications for our teaching practice and understanding of student behaviour.**

[|Ning in Education]**offer this advice about** [|how to request ad removal from an educational network]

[|The flat classroom project]**. Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis' collaborative projects that bring together classrooms from around the world.**

[|Using ning for classes] **Virginia Yonkers' post about using Ning with her University students.

Advice about using Ning from** [|TechTuesday]


 * Setting up a ning **


 * One of the things I did when I was working out how to organise a ning was to set up a practice one. That way I could fiddle with settings and experiment with how things looked.**

[|Ning] **Here's where you need to go if you want to create your own Ning network**

[|Tutorial] **created by Anthony Andrews giving thorough step by step instructions for creation of a ning. Excellent resource.**