FirstClass software for teacher collaboration

I always learn at least as much in my conference conversations as I do at the sessions themselves. At TNT I spoke with Craig Nansen about some of the things he’s been doing in Minot, ND. I also met Darin King, Tech Coordinator in Grand Forks. Both Craig and Darin have been using FirstClass to promote teacher collaboration in their districts. The software looks pretty interesting and definitely much easier to administer than MS Exchange. I think we’re tending toward an intranet solution based on Plone though and I’m probably going to use Plone as the basis for our curriculum repository.