Using collaborative writing tools

• Richard Byrne: Blog, Wiki, or Website: Key Points to Consider
• 10 Apps for Writing and Collaboration
• 102 Free (or Free to Try) Online Collaborative Learning Tools for Teachers and Educators 
• Collaborating in Google Drive to Grow an Instructional Framework for Literacy. International Literacy Association Blog
• Using Google Drive
• Using Voice Typing in Google Docs
• Videos: Using VoiceThread for giving feedback to writing 
• 20 Easy Ways to Collaborate Globally with Your Class Now 
• Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration 
• EdSurge: Lots of collaborative platforms for collaborative writing  
• Google Docs Outline: Great Tool to Publish Good Looking Google Docs 
• Drafts iOS writing tool
• Amber Chandler: How I Finally Figured Out Collaborative Writing. Middle Web
• Adding apps from the Chrome App Store for use with Google Drive
• Working with Office files in Google Drive using Office Compatibility Mode
• Alice Keeler: Student Guide to Collaborative Use of Google Slides
• Twiddla: Whiteboard collaboration tool
• Lots of collaboration writing tools.  CoolToolsforSchools
• Hypothes.is 
• Ed Tech Challenge: Collaboration tools
• Students are writing and editing Wikipedia pages. The Washington Post 
• Using Blogs to Collaborate and Share
• Richard Byrne: Using Titanpad for collaborative note-taking
• Poetica: Tool for collaborative editing of documents
• Brodahl, C., & Hansen, N. K. (2014). Education students’ use of collaborative writing tools in collectively reflective essay papers. Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 13, 91-120
• 27 Free Tools to Collaborate, Hold Discussions, and Backchannel with Students
• 25 Tips to Make Google Drive Better
• Medium: Collaborative writing and editing tool
• Editorially: Collaborative writing and editing tool
• Embi, M. A.  (20120.  Web 2.0 Collaborative Tools: A Quick Guide.  Scribd
• The Peerology Handbook: Free download
• BoomWriter: Free collaborative writing tool 
• Graphite: Apps and website for grades 6 -12 reading and writing
• Beth Holland, Redefining the Writing Process of Writing with iPads.  Edutopia 
• Adam Abrams: Collaborative Writing Toots for Cooperative Learning
• Vicki Davis: Common Core in the Cloud: Using cloud-based collaborative writing
• Reich, J., & Holland, B.  (2013).  How tablets can enable meaningful connections for students and teachers.  Mind/Shift

 

Collaborative Writing Tools

• iWorks Pages 
• Zoho Docs 
• NoodleTools 
• Microsoft Office 365 
• PiratePad 
• iEtherpad 
• Titanpad 
• MeetingWords 

 

iOS collaborative writing apps 

• Pages 
• IA Writer 
• My Writing Spot for iPad 
• PlainText  
• Clean Writer
• DraftPad 
• Chapters 

 

Android collaborative writing apps 

• Writer 
• Google Docs for Android 
• Office Mobile for Office 365 
• QuickOffice 
• Documents to Go  
• Polaris Office 
• Office Suite 
• Olive Office

 

Google Docs

• Google Docs
• Google Classroom for use with Google Docs and Drive
• Using "see new changes" feature in Google Docs
• Use of Voice Typing in Google Docs: Speech to text feature in Docs
• 4 Important Google Docs Features for Student Researchers
• Using Google Research in Google Docs for searching for information
• 50 Google Docs Tips Every Teaching Should Know About
• The Paperless Class with Google Docs
• Using Google Docs to support collaboration
• Adam Abrams: Google Apps and Collaborative Learning Study
• Amy Goodloe: Using Google Docs, Digital Writing 101
• Voice Comment app: Leave Voice Comments on Google Docs 
• Google Docs and Collaborative Writing
• What's New in Google Docs
• 100+ Google Tricks for Teachers
• YouTube Google Docs channel: tutorial videos
• Video: Google Docs tutorials
• Google Docs tutorials
• Video: Google Docs in the classroom
• Video: Using Google Docs to create a presentation
• New Google Docs (April, 2010) features
• Personalizing Writing Lessons with the New Google Docs
• Video: Using Google Docs to create forms
• 22 Ways to Use Google Docs in the Classroom
• Sara Beauchamp-Hicks: NCTE presentation: Using Google Docs forms for inquiry
• 100 Great Google Docs Tips
• Precipitate: Tool for searching Google Docs
• Firefox extension: Submit Word, pdf, Web documents directly to Google Docs
• Google Docs templates: Templates for different types of writing
• Google Docs Blog: Templates Bring Docs to Life
• Expert Village: Training videos on using Google Docs
• Making comments with Google Docs
• Sharing and commenting using Google Docs
• Ideas for Using Google Docs in the Classroom
• Posting to a blog from Google Docs
• Kristen Abbey: Review of Google Docs, Currents
• Educational uses of Google Docs
• BlogoScoped: Writing a Book in Google Docs
• Center for Study and Teaching of Writing, Ohio State Universing: podcast: Using Google Docs

 

Other collaborative writing tools

• Vicki Davis: Collaborative Writing in the Cloud: resource wiki
• entri.co: free collaborative writing tool for collaborative blogging 
• Matt Barton and Karl Klint, A Student's Guide to Collaborative Writing Technologies 
• EdWeekly: Writing Re-Launched: Teaching with Digital Tools
• Digital tools for cooperative learning, including Tribes 
• Cybraryman: Lots of collaboration tools 
• MixedInk: Collaborative writing tool 
• Using Collaborative Writing Tools for Literary Analysis, Journal of Media Literacy Education 
• The Future of Reading and Writing is Collaborative  
• Mind map of best collaborative writing tools
• 5 Alternatives to Google Docs
• Wiggio: Create groups for collaborative sharing of writing
• EtherPad: Online synchronous collaborative writing
• TodaysMeet: synchronous back-channel writing
• Video: Using EtherPad for collaborative writing in the classroom
• ZohoWriter
• Adobe Buzzword
• OpenGoo
• Web 2.0 Cool Tools: Collaborative Tools
• Nota: A collaborative wiki whiteboard for meshing images and text
• MixedInk: Collaborative writing tool that combines a wiki, a Google Docs-like tool, and voting
• Microsoft Office Live Workspace: Collaborative writing
• Microsoft Live@edu: Suite of collaboration tools
• Drop.io: Online sharing
• Webspiration: Collaborative brainstorming and mapping
• Dweeber: Students can share work and chat
• New Technology Foundation: PePL Collaborative Learning Environment
• TechLearning: Four Web 2.0 Collaborative Writing Tools
• Robin Good: MasterNewMedia: 30 Online Collaboration Tools
• Robin Good: Mind map of online collaboration tools
• Google Sites: Collaborative websites
• Using Google Sites
• Justin Medveb: Using Google Sites for creating collaborative websites
• YourDraft
• MixedInk
• ThinkFree
• Stixy: online bulletin board format
• Grupthink: share ideas with others
• WriteWith
• Subethaedit: collaborative text editing
• AjaxWrite
• Writeboard
• Subethaedit
• CoWord: converts Word files into a collaborative version
• TaDa: create to-do lists for planning collaborative writing tasks
• Wikipedia: lots of collaborative software tools

 

Collaborative online workspaces

• Teachers Connecting: Site for teachers to collaborate on projects
• Scribblar
• Interwritemobi: 2.4 inch LCD display for collaborative writing
• Wiggio: Online site for collaborative group work
• Skoolaborate: combines different tools for collaboration
• Scoop
• MindQuarry
• Thinkature
• Center for History and New Media: Web Scrapbook

 

Collaboration through videoconferencing

• Wes Fryer: Teach Digital: videoconferencing
• Scott Merrick’s blog: desktop video conferencing

 

Techniques for fostering collaborative writing

• PBWiki: Collaborative learning strategies and activities
• Handouts and rubrics for use with social networking sites: Teaching the iGeneration 
• Collaborating Online: Digital Strategies for Group Work (Chapter in Writing Spaces)
• Vance Stevens: Engaging in Collaborative Writing through Social Networking
• Vance Stevens: K-12 Conference: Using tagging to foster collaboration
• Getting Schools to Embrace Collaboration Tools, THE Journal
• Online collaborative writing projects

 

Collaboration through interactive virtual field trips

• Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration
• Noodletrip: virtual tours
• Library of Congress: virtual materials through video conferencing
• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Mariner's Museum
• NASA
• Indianapolis Zoo
• Apple Learning: Lewis and Clark Expedition