My $0.02

I know that people use Wikispaces professionally, but this would not be a good choice to use with students because there is no way to control what they are doing - unless you want to have a paid account. For instance, with wikispaces, if I had created student accounts, they would then have the ability to create their OWN wikis and say whatever they wanted on it. I did not want that. That's how I found PBwiki.

I created a wiki for ELA teachers to share material.
I also created a wiki that my students managed that was about our school. They created pages for teachers, for our policies, and other aspects that are specific to our school. At this point, PBWiki is only open to Vistas Only, even for teachers.

I use podcasting right now, but it is a slow process. We are working with an audio-visual element, and right now audio-visual is blocked during the day.

Right now, my students are trying to vodcast. We worked on creating TAKS tutorial videos for students. I took my class and gave each student an era. However, my students ended up not being able to use videos because there was no way to convert MOV files to WMV files. We ended up just using still photos. It still worked, but we were saddened that we spent a lot of time harvesting videos. Some students were even considering videotaping themselves a la Bill Nye the Science Guy. I kept trying to girl who was researching the Cold War to start out with a video of her in a heavy coat being cold. Cold... get it? We had to scrap it, but I'm hopeful that we'll get a solution soon.

I have loved this class. As I said in my last post, I'd love to have a web 2.1 class next year to continue this learning. Things that we could do:
* iGoogle page (could have this set up with students)
* Jott
* Ning
* Flock - integrates social networking sites
* Net vibes
* Pandora!
* Vuvox
* Vyew/Yugma
* Nuvvo
* http://learnhub.com/
* http://www.digication.com/

In fact, I found this web page - All Things Web 2.0.