Sunday, April 29, 2012

Thing #13

Zoho Writer is free and easy to use.  It is a great way of accessing information when you are away from your own personal computer.  For example in the past when I wrote my parent newsletters, I typed them at home and emailed them to myself, so pictures of the students’ artwork could be added later.  With Zoho Writer, I just post the document and reopen it at school.  When finished, I send a copy to my principal for approval before printing it for parents.  Zoho Writer allows my principal to alter my document rather than emailing it back to me with comments, because it is in read only format when emailed.  No more doing “save as” documents and trying to determine which is the most recent form. 
During undergraduate work, I wrote a paper on Joan of Arc and submitted it to my professor for proofreading and corrections.  I still have four Joan of Arc “save as” documents listed on my computer.  If I had used Zoho Writer, it would have kept all my revisions stored in memory for retrieval, but the current document would have shown first.  My professor and I could have dialogued about the changes through a living document. 


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