I’ve been working on an collaborative instructional design project for the last few weeks and we’ve been using Google Docs for most of our work as well as a little bit of Zotero for bibliographic stuff. As we’ve been compiling our various bits of information from readings, meetings, email, chats, and video, I’ve been thinking how nice it would be if we had something like Basecamp or DeskAway that’s priced for educational use. While Deskaway has a free option, it limits you to 25MB in storage and as most quickly discover, it doesn’t take long for a big project to exceed that cap. That said, both DeskAway and Basecamp sport slick, intuitive interfaces and do a nice job of creating one central web-based workplace where everyone on the team can store (e.g., docs, images), communicate, and coordinate logistics.
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