Google Docs

Thank you Marcia M for giving us a live and in-person demonstration of how useful this little app is. It's also easy peasy to use. (Thank you google) It's kind of mind-boggling to think of all the different ways to temporarily store, transfer, send and work on documents. As easy as attachments and email are now, they're almost last century, you know? With the number of students who use our computers and resources to write up assignments, this is an excellent way for them to 'take it with them' so to speak.

Later, on second thought....Yes, good way for students (or whoever) to work here, there or anywhere on a document but they have to have an email account to do so! While I don't know the statistics, I would hazard a guess that many of our students (grades 3-8 and possibly higher) who could really benefit from this do not have an email account, or may not have adequate access to computers to make use of one etc. I need to explore and think about this a bit further. Obviously we need to not only be aware of how the schools (middle and elementary) are set up for computer usage, but we also need to know what/how they are instructing their students.

After fiddling around with both Google and Zoho, I think I prefer Zoho. Although it's not as clean looking as google, it was a little more intuitive for me to use.