We have been using Etherpad for buddy writing, using the Recipe for Writing over the past week. It worked well initially, for the first session, and was particularly good on laptops. However, the next few sessions were very frustrating for kids using ipads, with the writing refusing to sit in place, and the document kept rolling back to the top persistently. It was not at all useable on ipads. So, I have copied and pasted everyone's work on to an A and B doc on roomeight@hunterville.school.nz Google Drive, and our buddy pairs will complete their current narratives in Drive. Hopefully the visual and collaborative aspect of Etherpad will be maintained, and we will learn to comment using the Drive feature.
