I hate it when I say how easy something is only to have to eat my words. Zoho was easy enough to navigate and seemed like it was going to be a breeze to work. I signed into Zoho using my already existent Google account. I opened Zoho writer and everything seemed to be going well, it really behaved very much like Microsoft word. I didn't have any issues and I really liked to option available to edit and share and the fact that there was even a merge option to import data. Then I tried the share tab. I clicked the post to my blog and it took me another thirty minutes to make my computer work properly again. I don't have any idea what happened but it froze my little laptop instantaneously. Maybe it was a fluke but my husband said if I dared to try it again he was not going to buy me a new computer when I blew mine up.
Below is the link to the drawing I created in google docs. This may or may not be easier than Zoho. I think if Zoho had worked properly, it would have been easier but since it didn't I would have to say that Google was the easier site. I thought having to change permissions for other to view was a bit annoying and unless you had certain peoples addresses you had to make it either public to the entire internet or share the link but I guess there is no harm in that unless you are collaborating on something you wish to remain private. Even then I suppose sharing would be as simple as having their addresses or sharing the link.
I suppose students collaborating would be as simple as I have explained above, however this collaboration would be limited for some by computer and internet availability. I think in some instances it would be difficult to require students to use this unless you provide use of the classroom computer and then if they are in class why not collaborate in person.
As far as choosing between Zoho and Google docs, I think either would be a valuable resource. I think they were both easy to use and if I could have gotten Zoho to work properly it would have been just as good as Google. I can see either of these being useful in my career and also in the lives of my students provided they have computers and access to the internet.
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