Collaboratively Create Multimedia Books on Widbook

This month Widbook became a financial supporter of Free Technology for Teachers. I've written about the service before, but as a service...

Draft - A Simple Collaborative Writing Tool

Draft is a new collaborative writing tool that makes you focus on writing and revising by providing a simple user interface. In Draft you w...

Widbook Makes It Easier to Collaboratively Create Multimedia Books

Widbook is a platform designed to help people collaboratively create multimedia books. I reviewed the service last summer and since then i...

BoomWriter Offers Collaborative Publishing for Kids

This week I had the opportunity to have dinner with Ken Haynes, one of the co-founders of BoomWriter , to talk about what his service offers...

Collaborative Writing Across Multiple Grade Levels

Last Thursday after my presentation at The Literacy Promise conference I sat in on Brad Wilcox's presentation about inspiring students...

Zopler - Collaborative Storytelling

Zopler is an interesting free service for collaboratively writing stories. The basic idea behind Zopler is to enable the creation of commun...

QikPad - An Instant Collaborative Writing Platform

QikPad is a new service that allows you to quickly create an online place to collaboratively create documents with one or more partners. If...

New Comment-only Option in Google Docs

Earlier today Google added a handy new sharing setting to Google Documents . Now when you share a document with someone you have the option ...

Motivate Students to Write Their Best With Boom Writer

Last spring I wrote about a neat collaborative writing service for students called Boom Writer . Since then I've learned a little more a...

Boom Writer - Collaborative Publishing for Kids

Boom Writer is a service designed to encourage kids to do their best writing and share it with each other to create a small book. Boom Writ...

Web Doc - Multimedia Conversations Made Easy

Web Doc is a new service that is best described as a blog platform that offers rich multimedia commenting. If you've ever tried Tumblr ...

Instablogg - Write a Blog Post in an Instant

Instablog g is a free service that allows anyone to start writing a blog post instantly. As soon as you land at Instablogg.com you can star...

Wikispaces Adds a New Commenting Feature

My US History students are currently wrapping-up an assignment in which they each had to contribute a page to a Wikispaces -hosted wiki abou...

A Tale of Two Stories: Storyline Online & Storybird (Guest Post)

Richard asked me to be a guest blogger today. As a frequent reader of Free Technology for Teachers, I consider it quite an honor to contribu...

New Discussion Features in Google Docs

Google Docs has had a commenting system for almost a year now. That system is a good one that I use for commenting on my students' writ...

Magnetic Poetry for Kids

Walk into any gift shop or toy shop and you're likely to find a set of magnetic words for sale. Slap them on your refrigerator and soon ...

Sync.in - Realtime Document Collaboration

Sync.in is a web based document creation service that allows users to collaborate in realtime. People that have used services like TitanPad...

Teaching Collaborative Revision Using Google Docs

Earlier this evening Kyle Pace called my attention to a nice free publication from Google and Weekly Reader . Through Google for Educators ...

Thumb Scribes - Collaborative Poems and Stories

Thumb Scribes is a new platform for collaboratively creating poems and short stories. Thumb Scribes can be used in two ways. First, you ca...

TitanPad - An EtherPad Clone

When Google purchased real-time document collaboration platform EtherPad's parent company Appjet in December, EtherPad's code was m...