Tonight, I intend to read through a range of possibilities of how to set up Forums, Blogs, Message Boards, Surveys. (NOTE - these are for my parents, not my students/kids).  I'm also talking to contacts and might post an ad on guru to find someone with experience and expertise to help me set them up.  I'm interested in:

- Simplicity to manage

- Low cost

Forums & Message Boards

Yahoo Forums - I'm been involved in lots of these

forum.org - i just found them thru google
delphiforums.com/- i just found them thru google

Surveys

I was just recommended to look at:

- Survey Monkey

-Zoomerang

The Blog would be a way of managing a faq on a range of educational questions that my parents ask.  All of these would have to be available on my Member Login page.