Thing #13

The first word processing tool I discovered and used was Zoho writer. The first thing I noticed when playing with Zoho writer was that it is formatted alot like microsoft word, which made it pretty easy to use since almost everyone is pretty familiar with  microsoft word. The one thing I found the most useful to me about Zoho writer is the fact that you can import and export documents. When exporting documents in Zoho writer, you can export them as Microsoft Word documents, HTML, or PDF files. This could be very helpful when trying to access your work from a different computer at a later time.

After discovering all that Zoho writer had to offer, I started playing with Google Docs. I decided to create a google doc of reasons to use google doc over microsoft office, here is the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10g7Lj7EvPeKvnPOHUTb8zJ3Pef0EN5tBBi0PXWkM6PY/edit#

Google Docs can be very useful for teachers and students because it is a great word processing tool to create and share your work. Using google docs, you can create a document or presentation and allow peers to edit it. This would be great for group projects in school! It also saves automatically every time you write, so no more worrying about saving your work after every paragraph or forgetting to save it and loosing all your work.

Both Google Docs and Zoho writer are great for creating and editing documents. They both let you share your work, just in different ways. I prefer google docs because i have had to use it for another class before so i was already familiar with it, but from the little time I played with Zoho writer i found it to be just as easy. I think both are very great tools that teachers and students could really benefit from. I love how tools like these really help by letting you share and edit your work because group collabaration is so important in school today.