Tinyurl is a invaluable free service that allows users to change a long url into a much smaller, easy to remember url. The service is easy to use and can be helpful in the classroom. Some url's tend to be long and hard to remember. This will allow you to shorten the url so students can more easily access and remember a particular website. You can go to the website:
tinyurl and follow the simple directions to create your own.
Dropbox allows you to share documents and sync data with other devices like your work computer, cell phone, or I-Pad. Your information is also saved on the dropbox website. This is another free service that saves the headache of your computer crashing and losing important information. This is a great example of a web 2.0 tool that allows you save information safely. This tool will allow teachers and students a like to save and share documents. Free to download:
Dropbox
Is yet another free program that allows users to take control of another computer via the internet. You can connect to any PC or server and share documents or conduct online meetings. Instead of trying to explain something over the phone or through chat you can visual assist another person from a different computer. Connecting to another computer simply requires the session ID and password. You can visit at:
Teamviewer
Have you had an opportunity to experiment with TinyURL or Dropbox for yourself or class? ____ Time permitting, you may wish to open a Dropbox account and place some of your critical files and pics into there. At the very least it becomes a 'backup' of files on your personal computer.
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