Look out Microsoft Office. Zoho.com is here. Zoho.com has a suite of tools to create documents, presentations, and spreadsheet and more. The tools can also be shared with other for collaborative groups. My music teacher had her students work on presentations about famous musicians in groups. She used power point. the problem with that was the students could only use on computer and only one student could work at a time. This would be a wonderful way to work if it is not block at my school. I also like the the fact that embedding the images in the blog was easy. I did it here. You just publish your document and copy and paste the embed code in the blog. I found this suite of products a little more robust than the google suite and a little easier to use since it looks more like office. The documents also export to office products.
Also I could use this with my story idea instead of using a blog. Like google docs you can share this document and all the students can add to the story. You can add pictures and authorize your flikr account. You can also embed these stories in a website or blog as shown below.
Macon,S. (2004). Girl Sitting [watercolor]. from personal collection.
You can also create spreadsheets and graphs in Zoho. These can also be shared which is great for group projects. You can also post documents directly to your blog as show by the post Mary in my blog. Which I did quite by accident.
Zoho.com has everything from chats to setting up meetings.
Macon,L. (2009) screenshots from zoho.com
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2 comments:
The Zoho writer is definitely an awesome web 2.0 tool to use. It is an aggressive tool with many capabilities, such as an online publishing suite, word processor, spreadsheet, and more. These features makes it very appealing to users that are looking for that magic program to create professional projects.
I will take a look and explore this wonderful tool.
Louria, Zoho sounds like something I would also like to use. The graphics look really nice. And again, I hope that we don't run across network problems! LOL! Great choice!
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