DROPBOX

Pam Wetzel & Christina Ivankina

The program allows you to “sync” or save documents of any size or type to a folder that you can access on any other computer by the internet at any time.This program is assessable with iphone, ipad, droid, and blackberry as well.

http://www.dropbox.com/

Features

Features cont.

•You control who has access to your shared folders. •You can make online photo galleries.•The program uses a military grade encryption for security purposes. •Dropbox supports revision history, so files deleted can be recovered.•Remembers the history of a file for up to 30 days. •More than one person can edit a file.

Classroom usage / ideas

•This program would be an excellent resource for a middle / high school classroom that does assignments on the computer.

•The sudents could save their work in a Dropbox file.

•Also when finished with an assignment, instead of printing, the students could drop their assignment in the teacher’s Dropbox.

•Dropbox can be downloading right from the website. •There are three cost options: •Basic free 2GB•Pro50 $9.99 month 50GB•Pro100 $19.99 month 100GB•Only one version to be used for educational or non-educational purposes.

Registration

Possible problems / drawbacks

•The program is blocked at Shamokin and Mahanoy High school. Therefore, there is a good possibility that other schools have it blocked. Even if the teachers have access to unlock the website with a code, the students would not have access to the site and therefore the program would not be useful.