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Google Docs (essentially word and excel presented as a wiki) are an excellent tool for working with students on their compositions. I was doing this yesterday with one of my students and we were able to edit the same document at the same time. Admittedly there are times when there is a conflict of who is editing, but if you are discussing what you are doing (which given that it is a classroom situation, is the most probable way to work), then it goes smoothly.

The text was already written by a student who is preparing a podcast (a travel podcast about Berlin, which will be on this website shortly). I’ve included a screenshot of the text below and you can see that I have highlighted some text that I want to discuss. I can then elicit responses from the student and the student can change the text.

In the screenshot below I am about to highlight in yellow the text “Take good shoes because Berlin…”

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