![]() Whether you need help, collaboration, or just want a little extra knowledge when completing your assignments, these web tools will help you find what you need. Here's what the list is all about: While learning at home offers great opportunities for working on your own time and schedule, it can also offer drawbacks when it comes to working with others or getting immediate help on a problem. Three 37signals tools made the list at Ditch the backpack: 100 essential web tools for virtual students. If technology can make group projects both fun and productive, that’s really something! So next time you’re in a group project, give Writeboard and Backpack a try your team might get more done (and a better grade) too! I can’t wait to try this out in my next class group project again. No starting a new website, designing HTML/CSS, or anything, just getting the job done. It just tied everything in the class together easily and quickly. For our class, I made a public page where I put a link to our team’s Writeboard, notes with important deadlines and information about the project, and lists of assignments and participants. This great tool, which I hope to write about more in the near future, lets you store lists, notes, links (including Writeboards), and more on easy-to-edit pages. One other tool that helped our team out was my Backpack account. Even though we techies love new features and tools, the truth is that when something needs to be done, just getting it done is sometimes better! ![]() And the important thing is that it actually helped us achieve our goals in ways no other tool had ever done. Altogether we had over 4,000 words in one Writeboard not necessarily recommended, but it shows the power of Writeboard! The tech is so easy to use, everyone enjoyed it. Everyone in my class found it equally easy to use, and we had a vibrant community helping each other with class notes and the group project. We all signed in with a simple password no new accounts for every student to setup. It also saves every version of our file, so we could easily see what we’d done before or what someone else changed. I actually discovered the formatting by accident, because it is just natural to give emphasis to text like that. asterisk around a word make it bold (*example*). Writeboard does support simple text formatting, e.g. If you are easily distracted, WriteRoom is the perfect word processor – basic, but with just enough options for most purposes."Writeboard: Class projects reinvented" describes how the author used Writeboard and Backpack for a team project at Florida Tech. Free from the clutter that is usually found in application interfaces, WriteRoom leaves you with nothing to do but write. Pressing the Esc key enables you to switch from full screen into windowed mode where it is possible to access some basic options such as spell checking, justification and printing. The application interface mimics computers of old with green text on a black background which is easy on the eye. Operating in full screen mode, WriteRoom hides any potential distractions that might be lurking on the desktop. WriteRoom is a unique word processor in as much as it does not try to outdo other software by providing more or better features, it aims to offer as few distractions as possible so you can concentrate on your writing and be more productive. Most word processor are packed to bursting with features that most people simply do not need, and it is all too easy to spend time fiddling with formatting and fonts style, when all that really matters is getting something written. ![]() ![]() It is all well and good working wit ha high-end word processor, but for most writing tasks all that is needed is the ability to get words down on the page.
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