Last Tuesday we learned collaborative editing tool – NoteMesh and Yugma. NoteMesh is a free service that allows students in the same classes to share notes with each other. First of all the teacher needs to create an online class, then invite students to join in. The users, including teachers and students, can post and edit the text files together for free. Teachers can use this tool to publish resources online and ask students to read and write on it. Or, it can be used as a group researching tool that each student can update the latest progress of the work. This is especially useful for college students who take different courses and may not be able to meet their group members frequently. The constraint is there is no trace for each editor, and there is no way to save the edition history. If someone messes up with the work, there seems to be no way to “undo” it.
Yugma is a free web collaboration service that enables people to instantly connect over the internet to communicate and share content and ideas. I think this tool is especially useful for hosting study groups or tutoring sessions, for hosting virtual conference or other social events. Anyone in the group can make marks on the images or sent messages to the rest of members. This function can save people’s time because group members can post questions instantly and get instant replies, and they don’t even have to go out of their home or office! I can see this being used for class activities like debate, and I would like to try that on my students.
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yugma is way cool! i use the skype version for my group meetings. i love not having to get out of the house to get our stuff done, and with the skype, no one has to use cell minutes to talk to each other!
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