Haven't posted for awhile. Have been tracking developments with activeRenderer and with blogging. But have done some worthwhile work getting ready for web-based classes.

The classes are based on the use Blackboard software; for a general teacher population this seems to be at the outer reach of required skill but has elements of sophistication that can appeal to more technically interested participants. Which leads me to wonder about keeping a weblog (possibility a) versus having one sector of the discussion section devoted to maintaining everyone's entries. Blackboard would support such a discussion, with branches and sub-branches and cross-referencing and outside links. Plus it could be so structured that teachers would have to make a daily issue/event highlights summary.

Blogging software which would support a class log with everyone making entries include: radiouserland, blogger.com and others that allow multiple membership a maintenance of a log space. Blogger is free.

Blackboard [I'll have to think about this] may well offer enough of the psychological and technical benefits [guessing, 90%??] to justify simplicity over a small increment of sophistication but twice the software mastery required to participate.

Spike Hall