I've been working with Ning as an educational consultant for a couple of months now, and run their Ning for Educators network. 
Steve Hargadon: Big News from Ning: Ad-Free Student Networks
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Student Networks
I've been working with Ning as an educational consultant for a couple of months now, and run their Ning for Educators network. Highlighted by babeak
creating your own social network," and their responsiveness to the education community.
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yesterday they made a quiet decision which will greatly benefit the educational community: to provide ad-free student networks to K-12 educators.
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yesterday they made a quiet decision which will greatly benefit the educational community: to provide ad-free student networks to K-12 educators.
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Yesterday, in a flurry of email exchanges, Ning's Gina Bianchini and Athena Von Oech, Flat Classroom superstars Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay, and I worked out the details of a trial program to remove the ad component from any existing or newly-created K-12 student-centered networks. If we can show them ad-free networks are something educators really want (that won't be hard!), they will continue the program and create a more automated, stream-lined process--but in the meantime, here is what you can do:
- Create your student network, if you don't already have one
- Go to http://help.ning.com/?page_id
=27 - Use the subject line: "Ad Removal Request for grades 7 - 12 Education Network"
- Put in your network ID at the beginning of the "Describe your issue" box, then just give a one-sentence description of your network usage. For example, you could put:
"flatclassroomproject.ning.com - a global collaborative project founded by Vicki Davis (Westwood Schools, USA) and Julie Lindsay (Qatar Academy, Qatar) in 2006 to use Web 2.0 tools to facilitate communication, interaction and collaboration between students and teachers from all participating classrooms." - Email me at steve@hargadon.com if your network isn't ad-free within 72 hours (let's just say three *work* days!). [This is an update as of 1/18/08.]
- Join the Ning in Education community to get help, hints, and tips for using Ning in educational settings
- Consider thanking Ning by placing a "Ning in Education" badge on your frontpage by following the link on the right side of that network that says "Get a Ning in Education Badge!" You can then add the HTML code into a text box on your network.
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I was working with an upper-elementary teacher who wanted to set up a Ning network for his students (primarily so that he could be modeling how to act appropriately online in blogs, message boards, and through commenting features while celebrating student work). Here is what he did to make his network COPPA-compliant:
If you set up your Ning so that you are . . .
- not collecting private information (i.e. real name, home address, email address, telephone number or any other information that would allow someone to identify or contact the child)
- have children create their Ning accounts with the Gmail alternative (onlineconnections+name/alias@gmail.com) and not a personal e-mail and use an alias instead of real name
- get parent permission on a form that provides full disclosure of how you will be using the private Ning as a way for students to share their academic work with others
- moderating the content that is posted
- maintain your network as private - invitation only
Ning allowed him to create his network and removed the advertisements.
If you set up your Ning so that you are . . .
- not collecting private information (i.e. real name, home address, email address, telephone number or any other information that would allow someone to identify or contact the child)
- have children create their Ning accounts with the Gmail alternative (onlineconnections+name/alias@gmail.com) and not a personal e-mail and use an alias instead of real name
- get parent permission on a form that provides full disclosure of how you will be using the private Ning as a way for students to share their academic work with others
- moderating the content that is posted
- maintain your network as private - invitation only
Ning allowed him to create his network and removed the advertisements.
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Public Comment
on 2007-11-01 by dgrice
on 2008-06-19 by babeak