Hi Dawn,
I will use this at school too. We might try posting every day at first, you on your class and I on mine, so we have lots of data. And then when we write the book, we'll have lotsof data. This should be fun. Yours of course is a full year class and mine will only be a semester this year, but we hope to make it a year long by combining a section with a section of forms of fiction. As for this being private, no one but you or me can log on. I have to check if anyone can access it any other way.
Pat