Zoho Writer is a very useful too i think. Most time when you want to work on a paper or a project you have to carry a flash drive with you so you can work on it on any computer. However with Zoho Writer i can just sign in on goggle and zoho writer pull up my document and work on it on any computer. I can defently see this coming in handy for teachers. Linking documents they wrote on to their classroom web page. Zoho even has were you can mail merge your document, such as progress reports or just letters to the parents. I think also i cool tools is that you can link your documents to your blog. Know i could not do it cause for some reason it said it could not connect. However if one was able to get it to work you could write a homework assignment and post in on your blog so your students can look up all the intsructions and th assignment at home. (Way to save a tree too, hahaha)
Google Doc is a great resource. Like me a Teacher can produce her gradebook on this tool and then send the link to the students parents. With the Link the parents are able to pull to gradebook up and see how their students are doing. Same goes for assignment instructions, or important class news. Her is my link to my Grade Book that i created
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhDhVVwxIR55dEZfVDU4OGNEaFNSVOR
I think Google Doc can help students interact on group projects. I today's world parents schedules are busy busy busy. With their parents busy lives students might find it difficult to get together with others to work on a porject. With Google Doc they might be able to divide the project in parts. Each students does a part and then the group can invidually get on to a Google Doc and add their part.
After working with both Google and Zoho, i prefer Google. With google one of the most used website i feel more sutdents and adults might already know the tool. I also like how i can keep it private or open a document to anyone to see it and work on it if allowed.
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