Tools to Prevent You From Having to Throw Your Computer Across Classrooms

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A digital classroom changes the educand and educators life quite significantly. Apart from less stacks of paper, in turn saving a lot of greenery, it also makes keeping track of student work that much easier. Also gone are the days of the physical paper related excuses of not turning up with one’s homework. The taking of notes by students have acquired new forms and lastly but not in any way the least the need emerges of a way to share work between people that doesn’t involve physical paper transfer.

Classrooms with Less Paper

Classrooms with less paper means that you require quick and efficient means to share work other than by physical transportation of the computer or by throwing them around. Students need to hand in their work, teachers need to offer feedback on said work, students need to share their collaborative work, and teachers need to share classroom information and tools of all variety. Luckily, there are tons of different tools out there that can enable you to share nearly any type of file (from .doc/.docx and .ppt to .mov, .mp3/4 , .zip and more!). There’s a lot of info out there on different cloud storage services – which are a great way to share files – but many of these are business focused and not as classroom friendly. We’ve put together a short list of some of our favorite methods of file sharing so that you, your colleagues, and your students can spend more time on the good stuff and less time trying to figure out how to get the information to one another.

Tools to Share Files

Dropbox

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Dropbox is a must have on everyones file sharing toolbox. Its ease of use and simplicity has made it a must have. Offering 2GB of free storage, easy offline access, sending files to dropbox via email and simple sharing. If you are hard pressed for storage or individual file size you will have to pay an amount for a premium account. Or if you are net social you can get your friends to sign up, give them shout outs on social media, give feedback, etc and help you stay free while availing premium features.

Google Drive

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Apart from the fact that it comes from the google stable which gives it a backbone of quality the best part of Google drive is that it is free for up to a whooping 15GB with paid options beyond. It integrates well with other Google products but its drawback is that if you need to share with folks who don’t have Google Drive/Gmail, you’ll run into an issue there.

OneDrive

Basically Microsoft’s answer to Google Drive, with OneDrive you get 7GB of space for free, and it integrates exceptionally well if you’re an MS Office user. If you’re not, it doesn’t make a ton of sense.

Apple iCloud

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The cloud storage service offered by Apple iCould gives you 5GB free, and paid options beyond it. It is asy to set up and use even on PC. If your classroom is all Apple-based, this one is a must have.

Box

Box offers 10GB free storage with paid options beyond that, easy sharing of documents and folders, and easy to use regardless of platform or device.

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