Etherpad is an online tool that can be used to simutaniously edit and create new documents calaboratively with others. Anything that is entered can be seen in real-time and each person is designated to his or her own color to varify who has typed in what. I can see this being used as tool for either brainstorming ideas in a classroom or even for practice in revising and editing. Assuming each child does not have access to their own computer right in the classroom, using a tool such as this in a computer lab would probably work best. I can see this possibly being a problem if you have a large classroom, since I believe there is a limit as to how many students would be able to have access all at once, however if they were split up into different groups having different topics or working on different pieces to revise this would help. When looking at the Technological Pedigogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), this seems to cover this model. Using the computer with typing skills, learning how to revise/brainstorm would cause them to pull from their current knowledge or come up with new ideas to help guide their learning with this particular tool. As far as a particular subject topic goes, I feel as if this could pretty much be used for any of them, but would no matter what target some writing skills. Brainstorming and revising are only a a couple ways in which this could be used, I thought of this with more upper elementary ages in mind.
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