Students taking a hybrid classroom/Web course are involved with producing a weekly newspaper as an authentic activity within a journalism domain utilizing experts (editors and others who have already worked for the newspaper) and apprentices (new reporters and photographers). Students seed the course by producing online artifacts -- such as a writing style guide, reporting resources guide and descriptions of how to cover certain areas of the campus. Students enter a zone of proximal development by using a forum to discuss problems encountered while attempting to write a story; and, separately on the Web site, as they submit their stories and work with editors on story revisions online. Web server access data can provide broad brushstrokes of identifiable activity involving access to information (the artifacts), discussion (the forum) and collaboration (the editing/drafting of stories between editors and reporters). However, a closer look at the content of the forum messages, the editing/drafting suggestions by editors, and the actual stories may reveal correlations between information, discussion and collaboration as reporters become "journalists." The Web site had 67,048 hits between the first day of classes and Oct. 10; the forum contains 1,479 messages as of Nov. 15; the collaboration/editing portion of the site has 930 entries; about 160 stories were written, critiqued by the instructor and reposted to the site during that time.