Your web questions answered

Can I use the Internet to work on the same document at home and at school? - Colm Cox, Stillorgan, Co Dublin

Can I use the Internet to work on the same document at home and at school? - Colm Cox, Stillorgan, Co Dublin

Yes. The simple solution is to store your material neither at home nor at school, but online. At Net Documents (www.netdocuments.com) you can sign up for free and use up to 10 MB of storage space on their server, which you can obviously access from anywhere.

This would also allow a group of classmates to work on the same documents from different places (though not at exactly the same time).

If you already have a web-based e-mail account (e.g. with Hotmail or ireland.com), another possibility is to send the document to your own e-mail address. When you next login it will be in your inbox.

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And here are some other notes for your diary:

Irish Internet novices and technophobes are being catered for by a new television series on RTE, presented by John Creedon. Dot.What?, in association with the Information Society Commission, will air every Monday at 8.30 p.m. on RTE 1, starting next Monday.

Visit the online edition of EL at the Irish Times website (ireland.com/education/el) between 7.30 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. this evening for the first in a series of online seminars for Leaving Certificate students. You can email your questions before 4 p.m. to education@irish-times.ie.

This evening's session will cover study skills; tomorrow it's Irish, next Monday it's English, French on May 22nd, geography on May 29th and more study skills on June 6th.