Collaborate Online with Zoho

Zoho is a suite of production and collaboratory web 2.0 applications in the "cloud computing" network.The various apps includes word-processing, spreadsheets, wikis, chat, presentations and much more. The basic services are free to use. Feel free to check out the Zoho website to learn more.

Dropbox

Dropbox is a free cross-platform folder synchronization service that allows users to save files to a secure folder shared among any Mac, Linux, Windows machine or even mobile device. The contents of the folder are also automatically updated and stored securely on the web. This means, rather than using a flash drive to tranport files between different machines (and risk losing it), you can quickly and automatically update information between serval different computers and even access it from the web if need be. There's a lot of potential for this in education and distance learning. It can possibly provide a way to share resources with students or allow students to collaborate in the creation of group projects.

Google Wave and Collaborative Notetaking

The ReadWriteWeb Blog did a review of a potential use for Google Wave in the context of collaborative note-taking by students. Google Wave is a new technology (still unavailable to the general public) which will combine elements of e-mail and collaborative document creation. I can't wait to get my hands on it.