Re: [xmca] Re: Speaking out

From: bella kotik <bella.kotik who-is-at gmail.com>
Date: Tue Jun 17 2008 - 22:27:34 PDT

I used this site (with a support from computer dep. of my college) for an
on-line course and liked it much more than previous forms. It is really user
friendly and it will be a great platform for our community.
Bella Kotik-Friedgut

On 6/17/08, Lynda Stone <lstone@csus.edu> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> After receiving this email, Jackie Hotchkiss, my new site coordinator found
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> way for our sites to become part of a community that is *private* and
> has the capacity for: a) discussion boards, b) blogs, c) videos,
> e) pictures, f) communication [comment boards], and the capacity
> for individual groups (limited to a specific site as well as for multiple
> groups. This looks like a great tool for collaboration/networrking
> across sites. Because it is secure (only members have access), we
> are planning on using this for next year as part of our program.
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> Ning (www.ning.com) is the name of the social network that we're planning
> on using. It requires a master administrator but is very simple to set
> up,
> easy to change security levels, appearance, and over all layout of the
> page--
> the different tools (blogs, videos, etc.) are selected so that each site is
> easily
> designed based on individual needs.
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> I'm sending this info because YouTube is not secure and does not allow for
> communication.
> On the other hand, we could use YouTube, etc. to share those things we
> think can broaden awareness of our program----
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> Let me know what you think---who knows we may be able to collaborate more
> easily with this program---and it's free!
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> Hope you all are having a great June!
> Lynda
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> On Jun 13, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Mike Cole wrote:
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> Kris and I have been speaking recently about speaking out -- About ways to
>> communicate what we are
>> doing that will get these sets of practices more widely accepted and
>> supported. What follows is a
>> representation of one of the manyt activities we engage with young people
>> at a HUD cite here in
>> San Diego. We had trouble uploading it to the tclearninglounge website, so
>> at the suggestion of
>> Ivan Rosero, she put it on Youtube and Ivan will create the linke from the
>> Learning Center which
>> is the center of these activities.
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>> The uploading is easy. And here is what a hard working UCSD undergrad in
>> Communication may
>> learn how to accomplish in a week or so of working with visual
>> documentation of the activities.
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>> Seems like a really interesting potential pattern of collaborative
>> mediation for this forum as well?
>> here it is
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kiowil1I6UE&feature=email
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>> mike
>> PS-- What if every member of XMCA created a similar document. Think how
>> much we would
>> learn about each other?
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> Lynda Stone, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Department of Child Development
> California State University
> 6000 J Street
> Sacramento, CA 95819-6139
> Phone: (916) 278-4326 FAX: (916) 278-3348
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-- 
Sincerely yours Bella Kotik-Friedgut
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