Online Storage?? Social Bookmarking??? Who would've thought!

Before this class started I never knew that online storage and social bookmarking existed!  I sure wish I would've known these things in college...would've saved me a lot of time!

Online storage is something that I find very useful.  I'm still getting used to it, but I can definitely see myself using this in the classroom.  I have the students do a few assignments about themselves and I also run a digital scrapbooking club.  If I introduced my students to online storage, it would alleviate students not being able to bring in pictures from home because they forgot or didn't have a flash drive.  If they saved the pictures to their online storage, they could access them at school and be able to participate in the project.  In the past, students that haven't been able to bring in photos, have just found clip art photos or used celebrities as their family members.

Personally, I plan on using online storage for keeping files that I use on multiple computers.  It will be way easier than e-mailing back and forth or always needing a flash drive handy!

I'm still playing around with social bookmarking, but find it interesting.  It's great that I can save all my bookmarks and access them on any computer.  I'm not sure that I would necessarily use this in my teaching because each student's internet history is cleared each time they log off, but again, I could see myself using this if I were working on something at home and needed to showcase at work.

It's so exciting that we're learning about all these technologies!  I can't wait to put them to good use and explore what else they have to offer me!