Thing #15 Online Productivity Tools

I was very interested in all three sites highlighted in this entry because I see our students heading in this direction next year at the very least. We need to simplify the school/home connection for collaborative work and so far I have only experimented with schoollop's capabilities which even in their supposed simplicity were difficult to maneuver for some 6th grade students. Next year we will be adding the OpenOffice to the online word processing tools for kids so I downloaded it on my home computer in the hopes that I will have some time to play around. We'll see. I haven't used the Google doc with my students yet but it seems fairly straightforward and their are hundreds of interesting templates which always makes life easier from a teacher-perspective! I do think that this is definitely the way of the future with online communication and tools getting easier and easier to use and more and more creative. I am still trying to send a Zoho doc to my blog. It won't recognize the blog address for some reason.