I would try to unlearn that behavior. Stuff happens, especially when you are working in the cloud. Power can go out. Internet connections can drop. Computers crash.
Most server based software that I have worked with does not have an autosave with…
Wikispaces should have automatically saved a draft for you while you were writing. Hopefully it will pop up and ask you if you want your draft back when you click edit again!
There is no substitute for saving early and often. I teach this to my students and remind them regularly. When my kids experience this, I asked them if they had saved recently. Either they had, or they learn an important lesson.
Software is no…
The thing is, kids could make this mistake so many times.
You select text to do something with it and you hit the wrong button.
But that is no problem on Word, for example. You just put it back.
That option just HAS to be there on any app that might…
I just spent one hour translating onto a Wiki page before selecting all and inadvertently wiping the entire text. NO UNDO button! My work has gone for ever as far as I can see.If that it true, I will not be recommending to anyone ever a writing app which does not have the most important option in the universe - undo.Woe o woe is me!See More
From what I can see the notification facility on Docs only works for spreadsheets. A serious shortcoming surely if your students are collaborating on presentations or documents.
What problem is the author referring to here?:
...recently received my beta invite to EtherPad, a real time text collaboration tool. So far, I like it. It allows multiple people to edit the same document simultaneously - with none of that pesky…
Hi Glenn,
would you like to share your teaching experience through a book chapter. Please visit my blg or my discussion page for further detail. A response is solicited
tamishra
Delighted to meet you all and keen to learn how you are using new technologies, particularly those of you who are teaching languages.
Am I your first Brit?