Is it n-ing or nnning?

At some point I'll go back and catch up on the Google Docs exercise that I have been remiss about completing. Until then, I'm focused on keeping up! To that end, I've most recently studied Ning. I am a very low profile user of LinkedIn and Facebook, but will actually consider ramping up my involvement with them (probably LinkedIn more than Facebook, which creeps me out a bit) now that I have watched the Common Craft video and heard the narrator's explanation of the power of making invisible networks visible because, well, he's right. I checked out the Global Education Collaborative and signed up (because Maggie told me to!) but am not sure how much I'll use it. One truth that all of these activities have been clarifiying for me is that technology has the capacity to help me out a lot if I use it on my own terms but can otherwise start to bother me pretty quickly. As an example, I have very little interest in reading what other teachers are writing about at the GEC website but could certainly find it helpful if people that do enjoy that kind of reading ever wanted to comment on a question or dilemma that I had around teaching. I also learned the term "digital citizen," which I guessed would be very broadly defined, but which turns out to be used mostly around privacy and security and appropriateness on the internet. Interesting.