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Title | Article about Ning: When Free Isn’t Free |
Body | From http://nclrc.org Getting More from What You Have: When free isn't free By John Ross May 2010 Blogs and wikis have purposes they meet well, but one of the powerhouse social networking tools that has become popular in education, and elsewhere, is a Ning. Ning provides a powerful suite of tools all in one place. You can run discussions, post pictures and videos, embed a blog, attach documents, and many more things. You can limit access to your Ning to invited friends or approved guests, or it can be completely open to anyone on the Web. And just like smartphones, software developers have been creating “apps” (short for applications) that can be added to a Ning to provide even more functionality. And all this for free! Or it was. New corporate leadership at Ning announced they plan to stop providing access to the free version of Ning software, sending reverberations across cyberspace. Ning supposedly refers to the sound a Chinese temple bell makes when it is struck. It means “peace” or “peaceful.” Ning. But the loss of free Nings raised such a cacophony that the reverberations have yet to fade away. Following are a few suggestions you may want to think about as you’re considering your next free technology. Access the full article at http://nclrc.org/teachers_corner/tech_for_teachers/feature.html The full NCLRC newsletter is available at http://nclrc.org/newsletter.html |
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