DROPBOX
The worst thing that can happen to you while evolving into a techno savvy teacher is to have your trusty laptop inexplicably get sick leaving you with all your hard work erased! An educator's worst nightmare.
You can use Google DOCS and various hard drives to back-up your work but there is a learning curve, time investment and monetary investment.
DROPBOX is the easiest FREE way to constantly back-up your data and furthermore streamline your life. Essentially, it acts like any file folder on your computer. Instead of saving my work in the My Documents folder, I now save all documents, PowerPoint's, spreadsheets and photos directly to my DROPBOX.
It's too often a company laptop in my office will start acting sickly and even CCleaner won't bring it back from the brink. The frequent solution from our IT department is to wipe the whole computer and start it from scratch. It breaks the hearts of many who lose precious lesson plans and other work.
When it was finally my turn to get a sickly computer needing a deep cleaning, our IT guy was stunned when I smiled and said "go ahead and just wipe it".
"Are you sure?" he asked so puzzled and astonished.
"Yeah, I got everything on DROPBOX so I'm not losing anything."
I could go on and talk about never having to carry a laptop to and from home or the flexibility of sharing files, but DROPBOX has a great website with videos for that stuff.
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