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This web 2.0 website is a great web browser site for parents to have control over what their kids view on the internet. This site is free and is free of ads. In fact, it’s downloaded on your desktop. This site is very easy to navigate and very colorful. In fact kids don’t need to know how to read or write to use this site. Parents don’t have to stand over their kids and monitor them as they navigate through the internet because they can add the sites that they want their kids to view. There are a plethora of wonderful sites that are already available. Parents can add or delete websites if they want. One of the assets of kido’z is that it’s offered in a variety of languages. It supports games, websites, and videos. It is a very colorful and inviting site that kids from 0 to 8 years would love. Kids can do just about anything that adults can do on the internet, again, without knowing how to read and write. There is also a Parent Control Account that allows parents and teachers to rate videos, websites, and games by clicking the number of stars that apply to their ratings. In order for this website to work your computer needs to have Adobe Air, which can be downloaded. Kido’z blocks links that lead to sites that have not been approved. Kido’z is a wonderful site for teachers to use with their students and for them to also recommend to parents for their kids. There are many uses for teachers. They can download website content that is related to their academic content as well as download videos that are related to course content.
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@Patricia, my first experience with Ning was in my 3rd class at Fullsail. My group created a ning site that addressed the Digital Immigrants limited use of technology in the classroom. I enjoyed using ning even though it took me awhile to become acclamated to the navigation of the site. Ireally like it better than facebook because you have more control over the creation of your site. As you mentioned I see numerous educational uses for ning. But as you also mentioned districts have yet to understand the educational uses of ning so they block the site. Hopefully, in the very near future we will have an educational czar in our government that will understand the many educational uses of web 2.0 tools like ning and will be a proponent of them to the school districts.