Drop your memory stick - and check out dropbox.com

Learning to work in groups is a vital skill for all social workers.  For many of our students who are juggling work, school and family - the challenges of group work add in one more ball into the juggler's mix.  One of the most common challenges experienced by groups in my research courses relates to working on the right version of their proposal/paper/presentation.  While Google docs has been of use to many, some find that the "invitation" to view and edit a document gets blocked in email spam filters...and that's where some new technology comes in.  It's called "dropbox." I have been testing it out for the past couple of months, and recommend it highly.  I am currently working on a project with a colleague at another University in Massachusetts as well as another colleague in Norway.  It works for the home-office computer gap as well.  Goodbye memory stick for me, most of the time.

This new, free online tool may be helpful to you as you navigate between home and work computers - but may also be useful for your students as they navigate between home computers, field placement computers and school computer labs...check out dropbox.com

• 2 MB storage for free (more for paid customers)
• Super-easy to download and use
• Automatic synchronization - if you change a file, it is changed across all locations