untitled Etherpad lite allows you to edit documents collaboratively in real-time, much like a live multi-player online editor, allowing you to write articles, proposals, press releases and the like, together with your friends, your fellow students or your colleagues, working on the same document at the same time. It even supports rich text editing! Additionally, Etherpad lite provides access to all data through a well-documented HTTP API and supports import/export to many major data exchange formats. Try the live demo ! Etherpad lite was spawned from the hell fire of Etherpad and is based entirely on node.js, allowing us to share code between the client and the server and taking advantage of node's non-blocking I/O. Etherpad is an open source project. One of the first things you should do is actually use Etherpad lite, and get to know it, read about it, evangelise it, and engage with the wider community. If you want to help, get in touch ! The main development happens on Github . Thank you!
Collaborative Writing Tools And Technology: A Mini-Guide Collaborative writing tools are those technologies that facilitate the editing and reviewing of a text document by multiple individuals either in real-time or asynchronously. Online, web-based collaborative writing tools offer great flexibility and usefulness in learning groups and educational settings as they provide an easy mean to generate text exercises, research reports and other writing assignments in a full collaborative fashion. Collaborative writing tools can vary a great deal and can range from the simplicity of wiki system to more advanced systems. Basic features include the typical formatting and editing facilities of a standard word processor with the addition of live chat, live markup and annotation, co-editing, version tracking and more. Google itself has recently entered this field with its Google Docs, a fully-web based collaborative writing tool formely known as Writely. Here are more details about collaborative writing: Web-based Collaborative Writing tools Zoho Writer
llaborative writing on Twitter HOW TO USE TWITTER FOR SOCIAL LEARNING Collaborative Writing on Twitter Collaborative writing is a great activity that can be facilitated through social media. Wikipedia defines collaborative writing as: "projects where written works are created by multiple people together (collaboratively) rather than individually. There are a number of examples of how it is being done and these can easily be emulated with a group of students or interested individuals, Here are some examples of collaborative writing on Twitter T wittories twittories Interested individuals sign up to take part in writing a collaborative story and they add their own names to the list held on a wiki The first person on the list starts the story off with a tweet of 140 characters to @twittories - and also adds their contribution to the wiki to build the story in a more formal place They then inform the next person on the list who has 12 hours to write their contribution to the story Everybody only contributes once BBC Audiobooks