Ningin it

The latest things we've learned in class, pod and vcasting will actually be very useful to me at Hartford High school. We just had our entire TV studio (40 years in the making) dismantled and it was heartbreaking not only to see two staff members cut, but the equipment and space gone too. Well, the space will now be a study center. But the pod and vcasting will be things I can use in my speech classes in place of the video taped projects I had students do, so at least there is that. All this is assuming my school unblocks gcast and the other Web 2. o tools. I know our new librarian is privy to these things, so she should be supporting. As for Ning, at first I was using Ning in Education and it wasn't as user friendly. I love Ning and once I figured out an actual use for it, I have great ideas. Like Mark, my friends and I have an annual event, it's sort of a college reunion/Badger football weekend that has been going on for 5 years. This year I am using the Ning to organize it and then when I get more pictures/videos after the event I can upload them. I really think it will be fun to do and hopefully people will catch on and log in. As for Facebook, some of my friends have also logged on that. I ran into a student (in person) and told him I had Facebook and then I was worried students would find me, but there really isn't anything I'm ashamed of on my profile, but I really don't want to accept too many students as my friends, only a choice few of graduates possibly. Overall, I think social networking rocks and that is something that I'm glad I was forced to learn about in this class.