edmodo

Just set up my ap-classes with edmodo. It's sort of a self-contained facebook/virtual classroom that I had seen at one of the masscue conferences a while back. Looks like it might be a better way to extend the classroom outside the classroom than manhattan. We'll see.

Posts to the class can be set up to forward to you as email or as text messages to your phone, so the real-time interaction possibilities are better - if you want that sort of thing. It also has a poll feature that may make clickers obsolete - at least as soon as all the kids get either smart phones or laptops.

Eric