[xmca] Re: Speaking out

Thanks lynda, we will check it out.
Seems like we want BOTH to communicate and share INTERNALLY and get the word
our EXTERNALLY.
mike

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Lynda Stone <lstone@csus.edu> wrote:

> Hi All,
> After receiving this email, Jackie Hotchkiss, my new site coordinator found
> a
> 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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