Tech Tidbits Video: TitanPad.com

One of the key themes of the Common Core Curriculum is to have students collaborate together on projects, documents, etc.  One of the main struggles is how to integrate technology so that students can collaborate simultaneously on assignments.  This week's tech tool is TitanPad, which is a free tool that allows users to create word processing documents online and share editing rights with the people they invite using a unique URL link.  Each user in TitanPad (up to 8 different users) has a different color that highlights the text they enter in the document.  Each collaborator can enter and edit text simultaneously, even the text of the other users.  

This tool can be used by students to create, edit, and finalize word processing documents without emailing the file back and forth to each other.  Although using Google Docs would be the ideal environment for such an activity, none of the students in Wake County do not have WCPSS-provided Google Drive accounts as of yet.  TitanPad is one webtool that students can use to experience collaborative word processing until these accounts are provided.