I just found edmodo and I am VERY excited about it! I think that for the remainder of this year, I will be using it just to get myself used to posting short messages about what we are doing in each of my classes, but I am hoping to roll out more expansive use of it with the students next year. I also think that if I could lure a few of my other middle school colleagues into using it that the kids would really start to use it - and how easy to set up! Based on my few forays into it, I kind of feel like it is what I was really hoping to set up when I started down this web2.0 path....