drop.io Rocks! May 17, 2009 at 11:00 am
If you have not heard, drop.io is a free service for uploading files and real-time collaboration. I have used it and found to to be very user friendly. One thing I really like is that the site is not searchable by search engines–so that makes the location really private!
I used this with my course and was able to easily work with my students.
[...] One of my favorite methods for getting my avatar up on a blog with my comments is to create a gravatar (globally recognized avatar) at http://en.gravatar.com/. Getting a gravatar.com accounts is free and since it it is associated with an email address, it works on blog sites that have implemented the gravatar plug-in and where I have registered with the same email address. You can see an example in the Teaching with Technology in Texas blog. [...]