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Using Drop.io to Share Files with Your Students
Posted on24. Feb, 2009 by Cap'n Ko.
I absolutely love simple, technology-based solutions to simple, irritating problems. In this day and age, it doesn’t matter if you are an online or offline teacher. You’ll need to share files with your students via the net. One solution is to send e-mails out to you students, and attach the readings or handouts you want to get to them. The main problem with this, though, is that if you made a mistake, or want to add more files later, you have to send another e-mail with new files. If you’re teaching online, often times you won’t even have the option to attach files if you’re using the messaging system of an online learning site. Luckily, Drop.io solves most of these problems in a slick, simple interface. First, let’s go through a quick “how-to” on using Drop.io, and then we’ll talk about its implementation in the classroom. [...]


