This week I visited a good friend in his Middle School Social
Studies classroom and watched as his students were finishing up
a project using a online collaborative document tool called
Titanpad.com. He told me a little bit about how the kids were
using it and some of the pros and cons of the tool. I said that
it sounded a lot like Google Docs and he explained why he felt
it was even better. TitanPad allows students to work
simultaneously on a document similar to a Google Doc but does
not require a user account. His students simply needed the link
to the “public pad” he created, they added their name in one of
the toolboxes next to a color block so that he could monitor
their participation, and they were off and running. They had
access to basic formatting tools and individuals additions were
color coded so that they could see who what adding what content.
They saved changes as they went and had access to previously
saved versions. When the class time was over someone saved the
document and it was ready to go