Blog integration in instruction

I haven't posted in a while, which is simply indicative of being caught up in other work. Currently, I am conducting a workshop on blogs, podcasts, and wikis, the content of which I organized on a site using drupal (to take advantage of the aggregation feature). I set up my course site for Digital Media for Art Educators (links dead ) in the same manner. I like it, but I don't love it as a CMS. I do love the aggregation feature, and it saves having to get everyone acclimated to using an aggregator.

Has anyone else used drupal in this manner? The only problem I keep running into is setting up the cron jobs. I set it up on the cultivating.us server without TOO much trouble, but now on the school server, it doesn't seem to be working exactly right.