CrocoDoc



=What is CrocoDoc? =

CrocoDoc is a website that allows users to create, share, and embed documents. It is free and takes only moments to sign up. Users get a home page that is very simple to manage and organize and it provides instructions on how to easily share files with other users. CrocoDoc allows users to upload documents as well as view, edit, draw on, and comment on Microsoft documents, PDF files, and images. Below is a sample document; notice all of the tools there that can be used for editing and writing on documents. (CrocoDoc, 2012)



= = =How can CrocoDoc be used in a classroom? =

Teachers can use CrocoDoc to have students work together on an assignment or for peer-reviewed work. Students can make comments, highlight errors, and strikeout unnecessary sentences before submitting the document for grading. Students can also edit documents on CrocoDoc and then embed them into a class wiki or personal blog so that their work can be viewed by others outside of the school.

=Advantages & Disadvantages =

 Advantages
 * Free
 * Easy to use
 * Provides peer-review capabilities
 * Can be integrated into course websites, wikis, and blogs
 * Teachers can pair students or assign groups to work together
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Teachers can monitor student revisions and participation

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Disadvantages
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">No reports are available for teachers to collect data
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">No course webpage- only individual homepages

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">How can teachers hold individual students accountable? =

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Teachers can be a part of each group of students so that they can monitor changes to documents. This way the teachers can see that all students are participating as well as to make sure that the editing being done is correct. One of the problems that I found with CrodoDoc compared to other collaborative websites is that it is not designed for a classroom. It can be used in a classroom but is not targeted toward schools. Because of that, CrodoDoc does not provide a homepage for classes or data/ reports to teachers. CrocoDoc could be very beneficial in a classroom because it provides an easy way for collaborative learning, however, fair assessment of participation or data on usage is not provided to teachers.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Navigation =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Check out the next collaborative tool, Edmodo.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 4 Introduction || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Bubbl.us || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Collaborize Classroom  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">CrocoDoc  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Edmodo  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Google Documents  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">KidBlog  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Skype  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">VoiceThread  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">WikiSpaces  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 4 Conclusions ||

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">References = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">CrocoDoc. (2012). //Sample Document (image)//. Retrieved March 10, 2012, from http://crocodoc.com/demo/efwpa

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Grillo, J. (2010, September 26). //Collaboration is Everything (image).// Retrieved March 10, 2012, from Can You Collaborate and Yet Compete?: http://www.leadershippost.com/2010/09/articles/management/can-you-collaborate-and-yet-compete/

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">//Open clip art// (2011). Thumbs [picture]. Retrieved from Open clip art, @http://openclipart.org/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Roush, W. (2011, February 16). //CrocoDoc Logo//. Retrieved January 28, 2012, from Xconomy: http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/02/16/crocodoc-rolls-out-embeddable-html5-document-viewer-yc-startup-wants-to-be-the-new-adobe-of-the-web-sans-flash/