Thought I was just cruising along using Zoho; I found a nice font, used some colors, set up some bullet points. Then I tried sending my work to my blog. Grrr! No luck while using Explorer, no better with Firefox. Copied my work to Google Docs thinking it might be more friendly to Blogger but with the same result. I'm beginning to wonder if the problem might be at the Blogger end, but I'm not going to mess with it anymore, at least for now.
Blogging aside, I do think that these tools have interesting potential. The most obvious way that our teachers and students might use them would be for collaborative projects. Several other reasons to consider their use -
* Many of our students do not have a computer at home, must share computers, or otherwise cannot depend on always having the same station available to them; saving their work to Zoho (or one of the others) might be a better option for them than a portable, easily misplaced memory devices.
* In the Library, we often encounter problems when students need to print the work they did elsewhere but the software they used is not compatible with what is on our computers.
* During this summer session a new issue arose - all the students must save to a shared drive instead of their individual accounts on the network and some entries were being sabotaged.
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