Journal 6: Collaborative Documents - NETS V

Right now, there are Google Docs and Wiki, yourdraft.com, writewith.com, writeboard.com, and writer.zoho.com and others. For now I will talk about Google docs, which is also known as Google documents and is a free, web-based document that will store your data hosted by Google. The document, hosted by Google, allows the composer or composers to create and edit while collaborating with other composers in real-time. Classroom 2.0 has 10 discussions tagged ‘documents’. From these discussions I learned that multiple composers could edit the document at the same time, where Wikis only allow one composer to make edits at a time. One downside was that there is no real account for individual input and a possible solution was to have the different composers type in different colors. Google Docs also auto saves frequently so you can view the edited document almost instantly. According to one Classroom 2.0 respondent, who describes his favorite features of the collaborative documents as concurrent editing, export/save as popular formats, reviewing features, i.e. track changes, offline editing, sharing, and integration. It may be a good idea to identify what important features you would like from a collaborative document and that will guide your choice of program you choose. I commented on Brenda Mendoza who chose microblogging, KerriAnn Clark, who chose social bookmarking, and Christina Edwards’ post about gaming.