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Today Writely is accepting new accounts today.  For those who don’t know Writely is a collaborative online word processing tool.  Writely’s interface is very similar to Word.  From there Writely does things that Micro$oft dreams about, collaborative writing.  The author can open the document up for others to provide input (much like a wiki).  The author can decide whether to accept the input or not.  Writely also allows users to store their work online (10 MB I think).  This is definitely a tool you want to check out.

The article also mentions other online Office tools (Google Spreadsheets, Thumbstacks, and Zoho Show) as well as Google Calendar.  If you use iCal check out Google Calendar you won’t be disappointed.  But the one piece that could be interesting if it is true would be Google Drive (an online storage space).  Everything points to an announcement in the near future.  Would this lead to the end of File Servers in schools?

The article also indicates a PowerPoint solution for Google.  If this is true and it follows the Writely and Spreadsheets collaborative nature this could be the killer app for technology in education to take off in the classroom. 

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