Robin's Tech Tips

This is the first installment in what I hope to be a weekly series of cool websites to check out.  I stumbled across this link today and I am totally hooked as to what it could do for teachers!

http://drop.io - Want a way for students to turn in files to you online?  Maybe a place where they can load their files and then access them later?  Drop.io is a free website that allows you to store up to 100MB of files online.  You can download all the files from the website as a zip file, or set the files to be deleted after a set period of time of non-use.  The program also has the ability to be added to a blog as a widget.  I have added it to the side bar of this blog, so check it out! 

One word of caution:  Students can see each other's work and can download each other's files for their own use.  That has good and bad features to it.  If you didn't want students to see what others have posted, consider hosting it through a blog and naming your box something out of the ordinary so students don't know where to go look.  (Ex.  Naming it MrsYoung or Young would be way too obvious!)   You also want to make sure that you are following AUP policies at all times!  So be careful of students names written as file names and on the documents themselves and don't make this a requirement.  I would be happy to talk this out and help set it up for anyone who would like to know more.

So what do you think?  Would you use it?  What would the downfalls be?  What are the advantages?