Okay, at my age I *do* know not to get excited at things that promise to help *me* organize 😉
We’re soon migrating to Office 365 at Parkland and that will include the ‘amazing’ OneNote, where we can put *everything,* thank you, organized into folders.
I’m thinking that will be better for me than Google Docs, tho’ I have been really enjoying being able to write myself notes at home and having them waiting for me at work. Google docs has a folder system, too… I wonder if One Note will have a way to really easily see which file is in which folder. I skipped the “object permanence” phase so when things are out of sight, they no longer exist. Now I’ve got half a dozen files that sort of overlap with assorted ideas about what I’m doing, how, and when it needs to get done and I *know* somewhere is a sort of “big outline” … but which one?
Oh, then there’s Dropbox, which also looks awesome, especially if it really *does” save to all of my computers — not just to the cloud where I could *access* it. That way, I would have stuff this weekend when I just might be way the heck up in the mountains and out of satellite range. (My attempt at 100 consecutive Stack Overflow days might get the restart, tho’ there *is* a place a mile or three from the cabins on a summit where sometimes cell phones work.)
But is it reasonable for me to try to put things in One Note *and* Google Docs *and* Dropbox… or to try to pick one… or to be forever wandering into each one the same way I look all over my desk… as in, no, folks, these systems aren’t going to “organize” me. I’d have to do that myself…
Dropbox looks like the sweetest given that I have my work computer, my Windows 8.1 Tablet that is easiest to carry but FULL since it only has a 32 GB hard drive, my home laptop that has complained bitterly when I make it travel, and the new Asus which is Open SOurce Creativity Central (until we get Office 365).
GOogle docs is still best for using at the presentaiton for “here’s a link — go and enter the OER you found.”
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Rachel
April 13, 2015
I understand about “out of sight, out of mind.” I use Dropbox so that I can plan lessons and save the student version to all the student computers at once. You can also search in Dropbox the exact same way you search in the rest of your files, since the computer treats it like just another drive.
Which is helpful if you can make sure to use intuitive file names, and not just the first six words you typed in the document…
xiousgeonz
April 14, 2015
That search thing is important. Think I’ll spend a little time with Dropbox…thanks!
xiousgeonz
April 22, 2015
I just downloaded Dropbox to this computer (well, okay, I did it last week) … now, to get it on my other computers. It really does look like an awesome way to update from wherever and have the updates carry on everywhere. (However, if I have to be online to get to it in my computer, I’ll have to make a backup folder, too…)