Still using online media for writing-to-learn--and how!

Now that a school year has passed since the Calderwood Writing to Learn Online Fellowships has passed, I'm curious about what my fellow fellows have discovered and and plan on continuing to use. In my College Writing courses at Franklin Pierce Keene, I know I'll keep using a blog as a place to post announcements and links to resources, and have one or two in-class writing sessions in which students respond to each other's work in the computer lab. I also found it quite handy when I had to do a make-up class after a snow day. The Meebo instant message feature seems to be quite valuable to my students as well. (My College Writing blog is http://biggerclassroom.blogspot.com/. I haven't updated since December, though, since I teach hybrid courses on eCollege in the spring semester.) At my Keene State classes where there are more functional computer labs on campus and I have a bit more academic freedom, I have been experimenting with all kinds of online writing. I had students create blogs on Blogger in the fall semester, and then in spring was able to move to WordPress when KSC installed it. (My Blogger blog was Tracy's Office at http://itw101.blogspot.com/, and my WordPress blog is T Blog at http://keeneweb.org/tmendham/ . There are links to all the student blogs in the sidebars.) I've created an online social network using a service called Ning, which I recommend for discussion board work if you're feeling adventurous. Students are facile with online networks and enjoy them, and it gives you a more protected space than a blog, but a more personal and less limiting one than Blackboard. (My Ning network is Keene-Ning at http://keenening.ning.com/. There's also a community blog, not specifically related to academia, for residents of the Monadnock area. People who live up this way might be interested in it: Citizen Keene at http://citizenkeene.ning.com/ )
For my own amusement and to keep track of some scholars I admire, I've started using the microblogging tool Twitter. (You can follow me at http://twitter.com/mendhamt.) I plan Finally, I'm using del.icio.us to store bookmarks, explore the bookmarks of colleagues, and point students to resources online. (If you want to swipe my bookmarks, you're welcome: see http://del.icio.us/mendhamt. The best ones are tagged "cool": http://del.icio.us/mendhamt/cool) The Gabcast audio podcasts worked really well in my Keene State class; reactions were a bit more lukewarm in my Franklin Pierce class. You can see and listen to student audio podcasts if you look at either of my blogs. Allowing students to take out their cell phones in class and create audio recordings on Gabcast was quite popular among the students, as you can imagine. Some educators are using Twitter (which you can post to via text message from cell phones) in the classroom, and I'm considering it--perhaps having them post thesis statements so they can be viewed and critiqued/edited? As far as I can tell this would require having all the students set up Twitter accounts though. If anyone has ideas for a simpler way to gather text messages to project on a screen, let me know. There's a great new term bouncing around the higher ed blogosphere: EDUPUNK. My esteemed colleague Mike Caulfield wrote a good blog post about it at http://mikecaulfield.com/2008/05/26/edupunk/ I'm going to the TEACH! conference on emerging technologies in education in July and quite looking forward to it.
So, what about you?