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|title=Dropbox
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|description= DROPBOX (dropbox.com) offers online folders where you can {{tag|store and share files}}. The files can be synchronised with your computer desktop or mobile device. Public folders, for example, offer a simple way to share {{tag|notes}} or homework by simply circulating a link to the folder.
|description= DROPBOX (dropbox.com) is like a web site with folders where you can {{tag|store and share files}}. As a result there's less concern about forgetting your memory stick - though it's an idea to use both. If you install an desktop app on your computer desktop or mobile device, the files will synchronise in each place. You will also find a link to your public folder - by emailing that link to students, you have a simple way to share {{tag|notes}} or homework files.
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|specs=web tool with downloadable program
|specs=Web tool with an optional downloadable program to keep your files synchronised. Take care to 'move' rather than 'delete' files from a synchronised folder. 
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How your files appear on the web version of Dropbox:
[[File:Dropbox2.png]]

Revision as of 14:19, 5 September 2012

Dropbox1.png
Keep files and folders online for convenience and sharing

Tool Description DROPBOX (dropbox.com) is like a web site with folders where you can store and share files(tool). As a result there's less concern about forgetting your memory stick - though it's an idea to use both. If you install an desktop app on your computer desktop or mobile device, the files will synchronise in each place. You will also find a link to your public folder - by emailing that link to students, you have a simple way to share notes(tool) or homework files. (edit)DROPBOX (dropbox.com) is like a web site with folders where you can store and share files(i). As a result there's less concern about forgetting your memory stick - though it's an idea to use both. If you install an desktop app on your computer desktop or mobile device, the files will synchronise in each place. You will also find a link to your public folder - by emailing that link to students, you have a simple way to share notes(i) or homework files.

Teaching Approach. File sharing allows online collaboration(ta). Some services (including Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft's SkyDrive, and so on) allow collaborative(tool) document editing - syncronous editing of documents 'in the cloud'. This can be useful for working together on a shared space, and can sometimes be useful even within the same classroom for using documents to orchestrate dialogic teaching(ta) and high quality dialogue(ta). (edit)

Tool details
Title Dropbox
Topic [[Topics/File sharing|File sharing]]
Licence / Cost / Platform

Web tool with an optional downloadable program to keep your files synchronised. Take care to 'move' rather than 'delete' files from a synchronised folder.

Subject / Categories ToolInfo, File sharing
Teaching Ideas / Links
Link

www.dropbox.com


How your files appear on the web version of Dropbox:

Dropbox2.png