Google Plus Hangouts on Air feature now available to all users:

http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.ca/2012/05/google-plus-hangouts-on-air-feature-now.html

Georgia Tech Invokes FERPA, Cripple's School's Wikis

Very interesting (and scary) reading about one university's interpretation of FERPA...

Georgia Tech Invokes FERPA...

Wikispaces: Introducing Groups

from post:

We’re calling this new feature Projects. Whenever you have a particular assignment or activity, you can create a project for it, then define teams of members, each with its own unique pages, files, and permissions. Team content (that is, pages and files) are grouped together, separate from the main area of the wiki. That way, students in teams can do their group work completely independently from other teams.

As of today, projects are available on all Education-plan wikis (both K-12 and higher education), Plus- and Super-plan wikis that are categorized as Education, and all education Private Label sites. Projects have been built specifically for classroom work, so we are rolling them out to our education customers only.

More information: http://blog.wikispaces.com/2011/08/projects-a-better-way-to-work-in-classroom-groups.html