AirDropper - request a file from anyone - into your Dropbox

AirDropper is a site I recently learned about that lets you send an email request to someone to give you a file. The site works with your Dropbox account and the file the person sends you will be in an "AirDropper" folder in your Dropbox folder. The person can not access your files at all, they can only send a file to you.

The site is in Beta, but works very well. It took all of 2 minutes to request a file. There is no AirDropper account to set up, you simply allow it access to your Dropbox account so that it can deposit the file.

I clicked on "START", allowed it access to my Dropbox account, then just entered my email address, their email address (you can add multiple by separating them by commas), pick a name for the request which only you see and then what file are you requesting. That simple. It took about a minute for the test email I did to arrive and then I simple clicked "upload" which takes you to the AirDropper site and uploaded the file.You can select multiple files to upload also. Very easy to use

This is a nice replacement for Drop.io (which was bought by Facebook and then shut down). Teachers can send an email to students to have them submit work.

Another similar service is DROPitTOme.

DROPitTOme - receive files to your inbox

DROPitTOme is a great resource I learned about from Free Technology for Teachers (Richard Byrne). Richard and I had both lamented over the loss of Drop.io since we both used it to collect electronic versions of student work.

Richard found DROPitTOme and I was finally able to try it out. It works great. It links to your Dropbox account and allows you to have people submit a file to your Dropbox account without being able to see anything else in the account. Dropbox has free accounts available with 2GB of memory. That should be more than enough for most teachers to use for collecting student work. You don't have to keep the work there that long since you could download the files later.

DROPitTOme is a great replacement for Drop.io and very easy to use and set up. Why waste paper? Have you students submit their work electronically. You can even comment/markup/grade it and then email it to them or send it to their Dropbox folder.



Related Posts:
http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2010/09/dropio-online-collaboration-and-file.html
http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2010/06/dropbox-file-sync-backup-and-sharing.html

Drop.io - online collaboration and file sharing

Drop.io is an online collaboration and file sharing service. The free "drops" have 100MB limits, but you can purchase more space. 100MB is actually a lot of space. 30 lab reports only used 15 MB.

Drop.io allows users to have a simple, real-time, private online chat and share digital content (images, videos, documents and more). Each drop is non-searchable and non-indexed, can be password protected, and can even expire after a certain amount of time.

You can create a drop from the home page without creating an account or signing up. It is a very simple task and easy to use. You click on "Create a Drop" and then enter your email and they send you the link and password. That's it.

The "About" page on their site is actually a dropped document. It's interesting to see how they did it.

It is a very powerful, easy to use system. You can learn more about how to use it HERE.

I currently use it as a place for students to submit work to me without having to email it to me. I have placed a drop.io button on my classroom blog so the students can easily find it. I am just starting to explore the online chat and will also be using it to return students' electronic documents back to them with comments and grades. (you can also see the subscribe via email box on the class blog site. This site has assignments, due dates, resources and more and by subscribing to it, students get emails when ever I update the site) You can visit my Physics class blog site at: http://mrandradesphysics.blogspot.com/

"Submit Work to Mr. Andrade" sends their files to the drop.io "drop" I created. They click "add files" and it brings up a file explorer window, click on their file, and that's it. The file is sent to the drop for me to go and review and get.

Try it out.

UPDATE: Drop.io has been purchased by Facebook and is no longer available. Try out DROPitTOme as an alternative.