Math Matters 2.0

Thing #22 Ning has come!

July 24, 2008

Our school created a NIng for our faculty last spring.  We invited our faculty to join by emailing several invitations announcing the Ning and it purpose.  We tried to garner enthusiasm by listing the ways it could help us communicate among our faculty.  Although the entire faculty have not yet joined we have a good percentage as well as many groups and conversations begun.  We had staff development classes this summer; each one began a group on the Ning to continue the conversations begun in class.  We have begun tagging delicious resources to share with our faculty.  We have groups to explore solutions to education challenges.  We have postings to share new tools that teacher find.  We have links to all our teacher-shared wikis.  We have kept our network private, only open to our faculty, so we can feel safe about being honest and open.  We have seen departments opening groups to discuss curriculum and plans, groups of those with the same interests such as creative commons or swapping furniture, postings about summer reading (for fun) and groups about technology tools such as Moodle or ActivBoards.  The ideas are limitless.

I haven’t year determined how to use this in my classroom, but I know tht some of our high school teachers are discussing ways to use it with their students.

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