Reviewing Web-Based Applications

Zoho reminded me much of google docs. I have used google docs before at school and Zoho seemed like a very similar application and featured many of the same capacities. Like google, you have to set up an account. From there you can use a word processor, spreadsheet, email, you can create online presentations, and much more. I noticed that Zoho may accommodate better for the business world. I noticed there are several applications for creating business reports and presentations such as projects and invoices. I would highly recommend using either google docs or Zoho to any of my co-workers because it allows for ways to have an online network of tools used in the office. I could see this being beneficial to staff when presenting information that needs to be easily accessed and kept in an organized format. My thinking to more toward professional development days and staff meetings where a presenter can have their information save to Zoho. Zoho is free to use for personal use however, if you are a business that would like to access some of the other features I mentioned before there are varies prices that cover that. Overall, I felt Zoho was very comparable to google docs and would highly recommend to co-workers based on its functionality and cost effectiveness.

I thought that students would really benefit from using SUMO Paint. My students really enjoy creating their own diagrams and illustrations for scientific processes. They like doing this by either freehand or using word/paint docs. SUMO Paint is very similar to the Microsoft Paint application, but has many more features. Some of the features I really liked about SUMO Paint was that you can save to either your computer or a SUMO account. This would be beneficial to use in the classroom because students would not have to set up accounts through SUMO to use the paint application, they could just save to their own student ID numbers. Students really have the ability to get creative with this. There are many different brushes to use, filters, and adjustments to make. I would not only use this in my classroom, but recommend it to co-workers because it really allows students to be creative in their interpretation of what we are learning in the classroom.