Before I start on Google Apps and Docs in a new post, let me first talk about SubEthaEdit. This version that we have started using is version 4 and it is free for non-commercial use. It is a really useful application since it allows everyone to to fire it up as a document and you can type away, even in Chinese (unicode). Using Bonjour (a form of network within a local area), the document can then be shared with another person with a computer and the typing turns up real time on everyone’s computer.
What is amazing for this application is the ability for a central person to take control (aka teacher) and then share out this as a document to groups of students and you can decide whether a person gets a chance to just read it or to type and together as a team, students are able to collaborate on a research/study topic.
I find this very useful when we are going to work on proposals and project reports. I start off with chapter headers in a document and I then share it out. Different team mates have charge over a single chapter and we then review the sections together.
Do note that this is however a software that is for the more mature student as the younger ones tend to like to select everything and press delete and of course everything is whipped out from everyone’s computer!
