First+Class+vs.+Web+2.0

How to consolidate services

Google apps or web 2.0

E-mail - Exchange Blackboard - Content Management Web Publishing - DreamWeaver File Storage -

Collaborative spaces: FirstClass forums -- Ugly? Using different spaces because they are nicer?

One platform --

What's the web 2.0 platform...

Google apps -- integration and outsourcing -- efficiency.

Blackboard - Calendar -- Basic, Personal, School. - 70% people do basics. 20 % use more features.

Online quizzing, surveys. Virtual chat room --- teacher out sick --- chatted with them. Finalsite will work for quizzing and surveys.

Moodle for wikis and blogs --- did it with wordpress instead of moodle. Test logins -- Blackboard -- snapshot model -- auto population for kids and parents.

FirstClass with RAD to put secure information online.