Classes logging on to collaboration?

I think its a great way to integrate existing technology into todays teaching and have a new tool to use while learning at the optimal rate. Getting students together physically or meta-physically encourages team building which is essential to tomorrows workplace. Using the internet, students from the other islands can have with correspondents with similar interest and instantaneously, it breaks down those physical barriers where many minds are working together. Ideas can be exchanged to create an even better idea. Ideas that can be built upon through other means of communicating. Through collaboration students have the opportunity to become better students by simply posting a problem or a question that they just can't figure out on their own. Others will come in naturally helping that peer student out. Strangers on the internet help each other out so why would it be difficult to do it when you know that person you're helping? Over time it should become a natural progression into integrating this medium into classrooms, if not already.