those are good questions. at this point i am only your humble reporter describing what happened in a seminar filled mostly with senior journalism major several who write for the campus paper. it could well be that work-play segregation was taking place in their minds. i suspect unconsciously if so. i can ask and will in person on monday, but i doubt that they are aware. remember i offered delicious, oral reports, and wiki updates. that was the extent of my coaching. they suggested Ning, Blackboard and Twitter. before in class, FB and MySpace were mentioned as was blogger and blog aggregators i'd be curious to hear what other come up with at their schools. also not mentioned second life. ========================================================================== Paul Jones "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation." Alasdair Gray http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/ pjones@ibiblio.org NEW voice: (919) 360-7740 fax: (919) 962-8071 ===========================================================================