Thunder

A while ago I posted on another blog that Writely was an excellent tool - well worth registering to use in an educational environment. I have used it with students to carry out joint planning during a podcasting workshop. Unfortunately just after I said this Google bought them out and they closed new registrations down. Now they have opened the doors again and allowing new users to register.

For those of you who don’t know what Writely is then, here is my take on it. Writely is a FREE online word processor that allows multiple users to work on the same document at the same time, complete collaborative working. From an assessment point of view you are able to see all the revisions made to the document, you can publish the document once completed as a doc, pdf, html, rtf or an open document format. All public documents can have an RSS feed so you can keep up to date with when changes are made without having to continually revist the document.

I would be keen to hear from anyone else who has been using Writely for educational purposes.