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Moving an entire school to dropbox?
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Really.
I love online storage. I love the syncing, the backup, the cost, the ease of use, all that stuff here's a suspicious looking review site with some online storage tools.
I especially think dropbox is a great tool. We are piloting it in our 8th grade now, and it's coming up pretty nice. students are saving everything, and already when a kid comes in and complains about a dead hard disk, lost data isn't an issue.
Again, as with everything, insane monitoring and optimization of our network is in order. As long as the network connect in robust, reliable, redundant, and secure we don't have anything to really worry about. We monitor bandwidth, monitor switches, monitor the top 25 users (thank you iftop). We monitor incoming and outgoing traffic, internally and externally. we have a 30mbps line, which only occasionally becomes saturated.
But come on, 5 gigs of free storage, synced here at school, and on the kids computer? What's not to love?
I love online storage. I love the syncing, the backup, the cost, the ease of use, all that stuff here's a suspicious looking review site with some online storage tools.
I especially think dropbox is a great tool. We are piloting it in our 8th grade now, and it's coming up pretty nice. students are saving everything, and already when a kid comes in and complains about a dead hard disk, lost data isn't an issue.
Again, as with everything, insane monitoring and optimization of our network is in order. As long as the network connect in robust, reliable, redundant, and secure we don't have anything to really worry about. We monitor bandwidth, monitor switches, monitor the top 25 users (thank you iftop). We monitor incoming and outgoing traffic, internally and externally. we have a 30mbps line, which only occasionally becomes saturated.
But come on, 5 gigs of free storage, synced here at school, and on the kids computer? What's not to love?
On 15 February 2011, Andrew inscribed the following thoughts about this post:
Have you seen eBackpack.com? Like dropbox but just for teachers and schools. Couple extra features on top of dropbox - collaboration - classes - can sync with SIS.
Check it out!
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