Edubeacon

This evening I’ve been investigating EtherPad after hearing about it as a ‘Geek of the Week’ on Seedlings Podcast Show 73.  This is a live note taking application that can be used alone or for shared team notetaking.  Notes can be converted into a number of formats and best of all – no login!  The basic version is free with professional and private network versions available on subscription.

This is one of those ‘on the fly’ applications that can be used to pull together group notetaking with everyone contributing to the one document.  Like Google Docs without the need to sign up for an account.  It would be ideal to use in the classroom with netbooks or in a brainstorming session with colleagues.  I like the simplicity of these sites that don’t need a login – a couple of other favourites are Wordle (word clouds) and PicResize (image resizer).