Sep

10

Working with Zoho

Filed Under Collaboration 

I’ve become a big fan of online tools to help you share documents and collaborate with other and my new favorite site for that is Zoho.com. I’ve been pretty crazy about Google’s suite of services that includes a word processor, spreadsheet, e-mail and several other neat things. Zoho has all of that and a couple more (and their word processor looks, at first glance, better than Google’s.)

The coolest tool that Zoho adds is a database maker. You can use it to store all kinds of information. To make it useful, you can easily set up a form where you can enter data, and you can, of course, share the gathered material with other people or keep it all to yourself if you like.

This is great for all of us teachers involved in extra curricular activities. I’m helping run a Heritage Fair and if this database at Zoho works as good as it promises to, it’ll save us hours of work inputting our 300+ students’ names and project information. This could be similarly valuable for teachers running a multischool trackmeet, a science fair, or any of a dozen other similar actitivities.

Zoho has a stack of other neat features (I just discovered a quiz making feature at ZohoChallenge). If Zoho is half as good as it looks, it may come in really, really handy.

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