showdocument



Show Document is an Israeli-based service. It is a free Web 2.0 tool which can help a user to quickly share or collaborate with other people on a particular document at the same time.
 * 1.** **Description:**

The user can invite as many people as he or she wants. The uploaded document will be shown on a white screen that allows people to edit or mark up the document with a pen and highlighter tool, along with a text box tool and eraser.

Also people can save the document to a PDF file. There is also a small box for text chat so people can take the advantage of this box to make comments or suggestions while co-editing the document. Each participant in the session receives a designated color pen allowing everyone to easily distinguish their lines and comments from one another.

Since it does not have any video or audio support, people can use it with stand-alone video or audio applications such as Skypes.

Show Document allows a user to upload any file up to 2 MB in size and works well with most common file types as follows: Also, Show Document has YouTube Player and Google Map tools so people can watch YouTube videos and search Google Map together. Show Document does not require people to sign up, download, or install it to make it work. It supports Windows, Mac and Linux OS.
 * PDF files (*.pdf), Microsoft Word (*.doc), Microsoft Excel (*.xls), Microsoft PowerPoint (*.ppt), Rich Text Format (*.rtf)
 * Images: JPG files (*.jpg;*.jpeg), GIF files (*.gif), PNG files (*.png), BMP files (*.bmp)
 * Any text file like: Comma-Separated Values (*.csv), Plain Text (*.txt), XML files (*.xml)
 * Open Office documents: OpenDocument Text (*.odt), OpenDocument Spreadsheet (*.ods), OpenDocument Presentation (*.odp), OpenDocument Drawing (*.odg)

People just need to go to the site at [|http://www.showdocument.com] and will see the screen below.
 * 2.** **Demonstrations:**



To begin a session, select the file they want to use, upload it, and hit the Click to Start button.



Then, you will see a message with information below that will help you to invite people to join the session.

People can choose one of the three ways suggested in the message to invite people to join.
 * Sending a code to a guest so they can join the session by going to [|www.showdocument.com]
 * Copying and pasting a link in a chat session and then having the guest click on that link to join the online collaboration meeting, and
 * Sending an e-mail inviting a guest to join the online web meeting.


 * 3.** **Users’ notes:**
 * Since people work together on one document, it would be a good idea to provide lots of white space in the original source document for interlineations and text inserts.
 * The maximum length of the session is an hour.


 * 4.** **Applications for education:**
 * Collaborative work such as peer-editing documents
 * A teacher and students working together simultaneously and on the same project


 * 5.** **References:**
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Hong Ngo Educational Technology student University of Hawaii at Manoa**
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