Therefore, you must set up your projects with people who have HotLine. If you would like to set up a collaborative project using HotLine with a classroom which does not have the software, a 30-day, fully functional version of the software is in the HotLine folder. You have permission to distribute this demo client as many times as you wish. Schools using different kinds of computers will be able to collaborate once the Windows version is available. It also has a chat feature which allows the collaborators to discuss the work they are doing.
Aspects provides a great way to do collaborative writing and peer editing.
They can paste the document into the Aspects window and edit it together. Opening a chat window is easy and allows them to send comments and suggestions back and forth. The tricky part of Aspects is that you have to know each other's IP addresses. This is the number that you enter as you get ready to call the other member of the group. If you wish to collaborate with a school which does not have Aspects, direct them to the Group Logic Web site where they can download a demo version of Aspects.