DROPitTOme is a free service that works with Drop Box to allow people to upload files to your Drop Box account without giving them access to the contents of your Drop Box account. For those not familiar with Drop Box it is a service that provides 2GB of free online file storage (by the way, that's way more than the 100mb Drop.io offered). You can access your Drop Box from any computer and most mobile devices. You can also sync it across multiple computers. Learn more about Drop Box in the video below.
DROPitTOme works by synchronizing with your Drop Box account. After connecting the two services DROPitTOme provides a url that you can give to others to upload files to your Drop Box account. You must specify a password that has to be entered before an upload can take place. Give the url and password to those people you want to be able to upload files to your Drop Box account.
Applications for Education
I've implemented DROPitToMe on my course blog by placing a link to my DROPitTOme url along with the password for uploading assignments.
16 comments:
SUUUUUUWEEEEEEETTTT!! Thanks for sharing.
Sounds interesting, but why not just have them email it or share a google doc with you? I'm sure this is better, just wondering how and why. thanks!
I am a huge fan of dropbox and never heard of DropitTome. Now that facebook owns them, hopefully they will use them so we don't have to see this great tool go away!
Good question RG.
Two reasons 1. To cut down on email inbox clutter, With 100 students my inbox would get flooded with attachments pretty quickly. 2. A lot of my students don't have Internet access at home so they type in Neo Office or Word then upload when they get to school.
Richard
Have loved using Dropbox and sharing documents with family and friends through it. DropiTome sounds like a perfect tool for classroom use. Thanks for sharing!
One of the features I liked about Drop.io was the ability to call in and make an mp3 file. It was so easy because student all have a cell phone, and wondering if you know of any other sites that do that kind of service? Thanks.
@Kara you could use google voice to do something similar. Kids could just leave you a voice mail. I have my google voice number posted in my classroom and have the kids text me through it as well a their parents. Plus it converts the voice mails into text! Great tool!
Many thanks for sharing. Perfect for my classroom!
This seems awesome, but I'm a little worried about putting this out in the public. Is there a virus scan done on the dropittome servers or something? Anybody student can just drop any ol' dangerous file into your dropbox no? Intentionally or not.
Mr. Kaden,
I don't know if there is a virus scan on Dropittome's servers. Like anything else you open from the web proceed with caution and use a good virus protection program on your local computers.
Another reason that the email option won't work, RG, is that there are file size limits on most email providers so if you have a graphics-heavy file, it can't be emailed.
I am so excited about using this. Thanks for the tip.
how do you return the graded work to students after they submit it to dropittome?
how do you return graded work to students that they have submitted via dropittome?
how do you return graded work to students after it has been submitted via dropittome?
Leann,
Graded work I email.
Richard
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