Cool trick for student

[misterdub]

The school I teach at blocks the students from using email, which I assume is the case for many schools these days. My students use a site I created called

www.floppyit.com (http://www.floppyit.com)

where they can copy and paste their papers so they can transfer from home and school. It works pretty well.

Hope that helps some

[scrivener]

I checked out the site (without actually trying it) and it looks legitimate. I was worried at first that this might be some way to get personal information from high-schoolers. The site does feature Google ads, but then so does TTC. This is spam; however, it seems to be of some value.

The WHOIS for the domain name leads me to believe misterdub is the owner/administrator of the site, and that he is in the English department at a high school in Illinois. So that "my students have found a site called..." is probably total baloney.

Another option for your students would be Google Docs & Spreadsheets (http://docs.google.com), which allows users not only to store documents for later retrieval, but to share them for group projects and other collaborative work. It's probably not a blocked site at your school, and if it is, you should protest that. Although I haven't used this in my classroom (since all my classes have the interactivity of their own websites), I am interested in seeing how this might work for collaborative work. Student A types something and student B adds to it, edits it, or otherwise modifies it. Student C...well, you get it.

Anyway, thanks for the link, misterdub. Please stick around and join the community. Have you seen this thread (http://www.theteacherscorner.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2791)?