Thing 15

Much like social bookmarking, this is another great way to be able to share and access important items elsewhere, digitally. This is always an issue with school items since we do not have access to our school files. I always find myself frustrated when I am home and have forgotten to email myself something from school or save it to my thumb drive (and I absentmindedly misplace the thumb drive as well). Many businesses give their employees remote access to their files from home. Since we do not have this, Cloud tools could come in quick handy.

I added my information to the 23 Things spreadsheet quite easily. It sort of reminded me of the program Lotus Notes which we used way back when in college. I thought it was really cool that l could collaborate with my group mates on a major business project through this program, researching and writing sections, while my group mates gave continuous feedback and my college professor chimed in whenever needed. Perhaps we were ahead of the times...that was back in 1996. With that in mind, I can see myself doing this with groups of my own students that might be creating a website or video, or both, together. They can keep me posted on their progress and share problems, successes, and technology learned with cloud tools. I can help edit and revise research, writeups, and scripts.

I don't know what I would do about the email addresses needed here. Suggestions anyone? What a cool tool this could be!