There are various simple ways you can have students create a Collaborative Story online, and I have several new tools and examples listed on my Examples of Student Work page.
In the stories you see on my site, I just have students go to the Google Docs program, and each one writes one line of the story. They then go to ArtPad, a delightful little online painting application, and illustrate their sentence. I then just copy and paste the story and the url’s to their paintings onto my website.
However, there are so many different applications out there right now (and brand new links to many of them — Skrbl, WriteWith, Zoho, Writeboard and YourDraft — are listed in the Collaborative Story category) you can do this kind of project a number of ways.
I just put these last five collaborative writing tools on my site, and you can be sure that many more will be coming down the pike.
Hi Larry,
I thought I’d chime in and let you know about Coventi Pages, a killer web 2.0 app for writing education.
Not only does it allow collaborative editing, it allows students (and instructors) to discuss specific sections of text precisely. Creating a comment is as simple as highlighting a section of text and writing a note in the margin, just like pen and paper. Anyone else invited to the document can reply to that post and participate in a targeted discussion.
Signup is free at http://www.coventi.com, and we also have a quick demo video at:
http://www.coventi.com/videos/IntroToPages.aspx
Have a look and let us know what you think!
Thanks,
Dan
Thanks for including Zoho Writer! It may interest you and your readers, that Zoho Writer forms a part of a large suite of products from Zoho
May be you can try ToonDoo (http://toondoo.com) for illustrations & see if your students can use it.
Hi,
I’ve started an edublog featuring a new English Word A Day, explained in a fun-interesting way as a Cartoon.
Doo take a look and tell me what you think about it.
Thanks.
Rajendran.
ToonDude from http://www.jambav.com