So GAME PLAN, How We Doin?

In monitoring my plan, we have come through my second week and my second Friday reflection on my progress.
My first assessment realization: In a world where technology can get student instant results, spending time to learn to apply technology they already own is unappealing.
In my Contemporary Issues in Science classes this week, students took a tour of our school. Some of it has been newly renovated with updated lighting and energy conservation features, while some of it is twenty years old or more. Students brought along their cell phones to take pictures of features to inclued and discuss in their persuasive essay on the need or the challenges of conserving electricity in our high school. Not entirely sure how we'd get each student access to the images on their phones, I was able to rely on the fact that many students knew how to email themselves the photos. Others asked tech savvy students to take photos for them and gave them email addresses to use while easily a third of the class had no idea how to access the images stored on their phone and would rather lose the points in the assignment the photo would earn them than bother with the technology. This surprised me. "Couldn't I just get an image from the internet of a CF lightbulb?"
Second realization: web 2.0 tools are developed so rapidly that tech savvy teachers move on quickly. Needing to get on-the-job-training on the Blackboard Academy blog features, I found out that the district is moving away from that platform. My time and efforts would be better spent designing wiki spaces from free hosts on the web. So back to the drawing board with that goal.
Questions to follow up: Which wiki space will allow me the most free features, but still give me security for student privacy - a requirement fo my district?