I have been meaning to set up a Dropbox for months now. I have heard about it, and I had been invited by my sons, but never had the time to do it. Using the link provided by my son gave us each a bit more free storage space on Dropbox. It was very simple to create a Dropbox account with the help of the video. It also inspired me to create an account on the Amazon Cloud to save downloaded music to be accessed from any computer.
Dropbox will hopefully solve the problem of the forgotten flash drive, and having different versions of documents on the flashdrive, and in my documents at school and home. With all of those documents on the cloud, I will have updated versions (or at least the same versions) each time I work on something.
I loaded the application at home and at school and I am in the process of uploading files from school document folder to Dropbox. It is a bit time consuming, however, since I seem to be able to transfer documents and not entire folders at once that I have on the O drive. I'll get there though.
I did create a folder to share with friends... my Lake Compounce folder for our upcoming field trip. I shared it with my 23 Things leaders (I know you have no use for it, but I was testing to see if you got the invitation and could access it) and with my grade level colleagues. Although we share documents on the S drive, this enables them to check it out at home if desired. (theoretically if it worked)
My phone is basic (not smart) and I do not have a tablet, so I will have to pass on the "extra credit".
Great work! I shared your folder and was able to view all of your documents. I am jealous! I love roller coasters and would love to try some of the activities, but no field trips allowed for us central office types!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I don't do roller coasters but I do DropBox. It's the greatest tech thing my wife has ever told me about that I never listened to her for.
ReplyDeleteIt was Matt who officially introduced me to dropbox and I use it every day. I have shared folders for all the classrooms I work with, for my web committee projects and for things I share with my family and friends.
With it, thumb drives have been re-purposed as napkin weights.
It would be nice not to have to worry about where the flash-drive is or which version is the latest!
ReplyDeleteLake Compounce next week!