Sunday, December 13, 2009
Etherpad
I just visited Etherpad - what a cool "tool". Working together with colleagues in real time - like Googledocs - only better! This tool could be used very effectively for educational purposes when assigning group projects and collaborations between students. It seems like Etherpad would really streamline their effort and time. I love the "simultaneous edit" feature as well as the color-coded text feature for participants in a project. Etherpad would be great for brainstorming sessions, meetings, compilation of agendas for meetings (like Googledocs), drafting and editing of student team member work, as well as task assignment and sharing of ideas and decisions when students are working on a project. I went to the part of the website entitled "How Are You Using Etherpad?" where I got some of the above ideas or got confirmation that people were indeed using Etherpad in those ways. Also, eople are using Etherpad with Skype (how cool is that?), using it for feedback on presentations, as a virtual "Post-It" note, and instructors/teachers have even posted examples of how they use Etherpad as a collaborative tool in the classroom - some with elementary school students. I noticed several posts on the Etherpad site where people said they liked Etherpad even better than Googledocs because of unique features like the color-coding and simultaneous editing. I am definitely learning that these internet tools are not "stand-alone" (i.e., the Etherpad/Skype example).
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