The need at hand was for a central location for class business as opposed to course work. I anticipate that angel will serve the course structure very well, once I'm up and running on it.  

What about after college? I can see the benefit of a class organizational tool linked with an alumni stream so that built  resource pages can go with the graduate. Now you may ask, "Why not two separate sites, one for presesnt students and one for alumni?" My answer would come from our experience in this class. After spending so much time deveolping the pages for our book, I don't want to leave it behind, would you? As student s invest their time throughout the college program learning to manuver through this tool, I have every confindence that it will become a great takeaway.

Requirements: A collaboration site to post class notes, ideas and projects.  A web site availible for alumni. The tool of choice for me became the wiki. The name is derived form the Hawinian word quick, and was the brain child of Wade Cunningham in 1995. http://k12learning20.wikispaces.com/7-wiki

The excellent work of Commoncraft videos provided me with the best description possible. http://www.edugrids.org/book/cmmyer/wiki-demo

The three websites of choice were 1. http://www.pbwiki.com, 2. http://wikispaces.com , and 3. http://www.wetpaint.com .

The educational option within pbwiki offered a site free of ads. This may be a deciding factor when using this tool for the classroom. Is it fair to seemingly put a stamp of approval on whatever comes across the page? It may only be an age issue or a disclaimer may suffice.

Although each wiki had the same main features: edit, save, and link buttons. They had very different presentations. My favorite, and thus the one I built up, was the wetpaint site. It not only looked sleek, but it seemed to visually make more sense to me. I had more of an intuitive response to its page formatting.

Class project - http://ed366h.wetpaint.com

The startup and formatting with the tool was fairly easy. There were a few hiccups with moving pages or changing names, but the "read the page" mantra came to mind and I found the commands under "more tools."

There are choices to be made regarding the public/ private status, and member editing power. The originator of the site is the administrator and can delete whereas a write can edit, but only delete his/her own page.

A social contract needs to respected given this environment where anyone can edit another's work. Built into the tool is the ability to see the editing history of each page and to revert back to a previous version.

It took about two hours of playing with the wiki features to begin to pull together an attractive website. I am looking forward to taking it for a test drive in my class this year.

I was a ctitcal friend for Donnie Gallant http://www.edugrids.org/book/dbgallant/1-1300-donnie-gallant-moodle-quiz