New collaborative writing tool...

[jason]

I've been asked to design a tool that will allow people to collaboratively write real time over the internet. Two or more people can edit the same document in real time. Simultaneously! What do you think that the requirements/abilities should be? How could it be used by ECE students?

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[a26chan.livejournal.com]

My idea would be to incorporate a side panel with a chat function. While working in groups on a text document, a lot of times there may be points that needs to be discussed before writing it all down. By having a chat module available, discussions can be made first, followed by text into the document. A side panel is also helpful when entering document text, while being able to fully scroll through the chat text to find points you want to enter.