Write With could be a good tool for practitioners that teach writing in an online environment.

The ability to communicate with a learner, while having the document in front of both of you, could make the editing and revising process more fluid than it would be if you had to toggle between two screens.

Write With takes the cloud computing functionality of Google Docs then adds, what seems to be, improved collaborator communication. It is the layout of the user interface and the communication features that makes Write With different from Google Docs. Write With does all of the things that an online word processor should, things like importing and exporting documents and being able to invite others to work with you.

Write With...

...allows a user to communicate with others without having to change screens or exit from their document.

...displays a users document on the right hand side of the screen and on the left side of the screen a list of people with whom they're collaborating is displayed.

This layout allows a user to send a message to their collaborators while editing the document.

Users can...

• send a task reminder,
• ask collaborators a question, and
• see the latest revisions all without ever closing their document.

The video below demonstrates Write With in action.

Find out more and/or register at http://www.writewith.com/.

Note: there appears to be problems when using IE7 as the browser; firefox is fine!