I decided on Dropbox and since in my last post I described doing exactly what the info video said this tool is good for (avoiding emailing files to yoursefl), I think this is going to be a really great tool to use and habit to form. I can also see this would be a valuable ‘managment’ tool to teach my students to use. For example if we could store all the AP Art images on a site like this it would streamline all the file swapping and usb transferring we currently do. Hmmmm. I need to think about file size – perhaps I will need more than the 2G but could post images in the public folder. This may take some thought to work out the best approach.
For my experiment with sharing a public file I decided to upload a document I created last week at our tech PD session with Josh. I made up a help sheet for the seniors to create their Yearbook collage with a Web 2.0 program called GIMPshop (an open source alternative to Photoshop.) I added the PDF to my public Dropbox account and shazammm – it is ready for next year’s seniors to access. Here is the link if you would like to try using GIMPshop to create a simple collage of digital photos.
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