Google Docs and Zoho Writer

Both Google Docs and Zoho Writer are free alternatives to other document production programs such as Microsoft Office or Clarisworks. Although there are not as many excessive features in the free alternatives, all the essentials are there to produce clean and professional looking documents. I did feel more comfortable using Google Docs because it was more simplified and easier to pick out the familiar buttons and menu bars. That is not to take away from Zoho Writer, which might actually have more features to take advantage of (although you may not use them all). Nonetheless, I still think I would choose Google Docs over Zoho Writer, even with a more limited menu bar, because of its simplified approach to document production.  Both of these products would be extremely attractive alternatives to the costly word processing software being used in today's schools.