Just Beam It is a free service for quickly sharing files up to 2GB in size. To transfer a file to someone else just drag a file from your desktop to Just Beam It in your browser. After dragging and dropping your file Just Beam It will generate a link to it that you can share with anyone. If you upload multiple files, Just Beam It will zip them together on the fly for your convenience.
Applications for Education
If the email service in use at your school can't handle large attachments, Just Beam It could be one way for students to share files with each other and with you. Just Beam It offers a Chrome Web App that you might find useful too.
3D printers can provide students with a powerful tool to use in developing solutions to all kinds of problems. Read Write Web recently featured a fantastic example of students using a 3D printer to solve a problem. With the help of their school's library media specialist, Sue Prince, students in a Mystic, Connecticut middle school created a cast for an injured African penguin. The whole story can be found in the video embedded below.
To me, this story is another great example of students putting their heads together to solve a problem with the help of their teacher and the help of technology.
This morning in Kansas I spoke at the SIDLIT Colleague to Colleague conference. The title of my keynote was Leading Students in a Hyper-connected World. The slides for my talk are embedded below.
