Creating a Web Space

Summary:

There are many reasons why a web space may be useful to you, your organisation, your community group or your learners including:

to advertise your group to encourage more to join

to show what you do in order to encourage others to do likewise

to showcase what your learners have achieved

to provide information

to provide a way to communicate online

This resource is a How To guide showing you how to create a Ning social website. It is called a social website because it encourages the users of the site to interact and engage with it, through discussion, comment or by uploading their own photographs or videos.

Accessing the resource:

To access the resource select the link How to Create a Ning Web Space. The guide is created in MS Word and will open in a separate window. It can be downloaded and saved to your own computer or printed out.

View resource here (opens in new window)

Accessibility:

The resource was produced in MS Word, the font size and background colour of the document can be altered and the text read out using screen readers.

Additional information:

Ning is not the only tool which can be used to create an online community group. Yahoo Groups would be an alternative tool http://groups.yahoo.com.

Signpost to other resources:

Group 2: Sharing information

Tip!:

Collect together the images and videos you want to use to populate your web space and keep them together in a folder on your computer. Change the content of your web space regularly to keep it looking fresh and interesting, as you want get people to come back to it regularly.