Finally got this up!!!!!! Here it is!
Well Sunday has come and gone and yet my poor little post never quite made it…I am finally able to hold my head up without getting so dizzy that I can’t see straight. Just a bit of the bug that I think is almost over. So now it’s time to Catch Up!! I feel like I haven’t talked to you guys in forever and like someone else mentioned I haven’t even met you! =) On with my post….
I chose to write about Dr. Lowell’s post on my ‘gator’ about “Portability” which you can find at http://durandus.com/phaedrus/?p=31#more-31, about Jump Drives. I hadn’t had much experience with them until last Christmas when my brother gave me one. It was one of the best gifts ever! Instead of lugging disks or even my laptop around to send my info to other comps I just stick it in the side in the USB port and there all my info is right in front of me. But to be honest, I wasn’t even sure if I was going to use it right away and it sat in the box for months until one day I needed to save something and go out of town. My disks of course were more than likely going to get smashed in everything so I used the jump drive and was surprised that I was ready to go! How might jump drives be used online? Well that’s a tricky question since you have to have them with you but if you had the information right in your fingers you could quickly send it through email anywhere in the world and not even have your actual computer before you. Would it be good to use in a classroom? I think so…so many of our students are required to do portfolios and many often lose their disks many times. If a jump drive was available to say 3-4 students each and was kept by the teacher it would be a great way to access additional copies of their work and allow them to edit as well. If they wanted to keep their own they can purchase one for around 40-50 dollars.
I think the jump drive is just the beginning to more innovative technology and I am excited to be a part of all the changes we are seeing.
April P.
