Karsten Kneese, my podcasting colleague, alerted me to the Ning Social Network and to Classroom 2.0 there in particular. I love the idea of both the tool and the community.
The Ning tool allows you to create your own social community fairly easily. Comparisons with elgg/eduspaces are unavoidable and for the moment, Ning seems more aesthetically attractive and perhaps easier to set up than elgg/eduspaces. Having just tried to introduce a group of teachers to Eduspaces and the communities in eduspaces, I appreciate anything that makes that job easier.
The Classroom 2.0 community within Ning seems to be buzzing as Karsten says and there are many names that I recognise there.
Keywords: Classroom 2.0, Ning
