Online+Collaborative+Writing+Sites

This site is designed to offer you choices for collaborative writing sites. Collaborative writing sites offer your students the ability to collaborate together over the internet to create, edit and share writing. Use the sites below to encourage your students to cooperate together to publish work that goes beyond the classroom walls.

1) Wikispaces -- Wikis combine ease of use with great opportunity for collaboration. You're looking at one right now. The benefit of using a wiki for collaborative writing is that it can be set up any way you want. The challenge is to figure out the best way to set up an online collaborative writing wiki to fit the needs of your students and their project. For an example of students using Wikispaces for writing, check out one created by students in a 2007 creative writing class in their shared story writing game, "Survive."

2) Google Docs -- Google Sites is perfect for all non-techies out there who need an online collaborative environment to write, share and collect different types of information in one place, while maintaining a semblance of order.

3) Kidblog -- Kidblog meets the need for a **safe** and **simple** blogging platform suitable for elementary and middle school students. Most importantly, Kidblog allows teachers to monitor and control all publishing activity within the classroom blogging community.

4) Google Wave -- Google no longer supports this site. It has great potential, but it could be there one day and gone the next. This collaborative writing site allows you to "wave" at your contacts to brainstorm, map, plan, write, edit, or even draw. It does it all with clicks in real time.

5) Million Monkeys -- Collaborative writing site in which only the strongest storylines survive. The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type or create a particular chosen text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. This site gives you the voice to type. Read a few, comment on a few or climb up and write a few snippets...

6) TypeWithMe or Titanpad -- collaborative editing site. Create a pad. Share the site with your group members. Copy and paste original work on to the pad and edit as a group. When you are finished, you copy and paste the collaborated effort to a working format and publish.