There will be a communications area for every department, district committee, student activity, club, and team sport. We even have a faculty lounge with a For Sale conference and Humor conference. We can even provide a parent area and accounts for every household. We are proposing that every student have an online portfolio to which any teacher can add material. However, when we determine who can do what, we can easily build the structures and set the permissions.
Students start out with no Internet access and no way of communicating with eachother.
However, they have a mailbox where they can receive and read messages sent by teachers. They they will have open access to post messages to any teacher's Office Suite. So the office and mailbox system provides communications between teachers and students. We issue email accounts to students who have need for them, based on projects or courses they are taking. For example, our Advanced Web Design class has their own working environment and email accounts.