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R. Stannard describes how to use Dropbox.com to save your files, share them, and view them on all devices connected to the Internet.

Azendoo helps teams assign and track their various roles in a group project. I can imagine this as a nice way for teachers to help students decide on tasks and roles with the group as well. Reminders to the team help keep work on track. Azendoo allows as many workspaces as need, and each space has 10GB of storage. works with Evernote, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box to help sharing.

"Dropbox is a very useful tool to store online files, sync your computers and mobile devices and share files. With all those capabilities it makes it a natural tool for educators!"

"Knowmia Teach http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teach/id527216211?mt=8 Free; Designed specifically for teachers; Integrates directly into Knowmia.com (publish a lesson with the push of a single button); Organize lessons with steps/slides; Draw using shapes, multiple pens (with your finger), text tools, laser pointer and much more; Animate graphic elements on the screen by using two fingers (moving, scaling and rotating them); Integrate videos as part of a lesson (coming soon); The only iPad tool to allow face recording while capturing a lesson (coming soon); Imports images, drawings, and Adobe Acrobat files (coming soon); Integrates with Dropbox, Google Drive, Box.net and Gmail for transferring files (coming soon)" $2.99 Great tool for the iPad; see more info at the iTunes store.

You may find it extremely useful to upload files to a secure site to share to another of your own computers or with collaborative associates and students. This site offers 15 GB storage to begin, a good deal more than Dropbox. Get it while it's still free.

R. Byrne shows us a neat way to use a set of pictures/digital images arranged with the tool PicMonkey to create a collage which you can then upload to Google Drive, Instagram, Facebook, Dropbox, etc., and use with student projects and activities. A nice look.

"If This Then That helps you automate tasks like saving your Pinterest pins to your Evernote account, setting text alerts for calendar events, and sending email attachments directly to your Dropbox account. There are thousands of formulas, "recipes" is what IFTTT calls them, available in the gallery of recipes." Byrne suggests uses for teachers, but this might be an good place for students to try out simple programming skills. t/h R. Byrne

These are handy widgets, including SpeakPipe to leave messages, a Dropbox service, some embeddable games, and a public Google Calendar to embed. t/h R. Byrne

"If you're like me you probably have accounts on more than one cloud storage service. I have accounts on Box, Google Drive, Dropbox, and SugarSync that I use regularly. MultCloud is a service that allows me to tie them all together in one place. MultCloud does more than just provide a single log-in for all of the cloud services that I use. It also allows me to move files between services with a simple drag-and-drop." T/H R Byrne, though I don't have that many cloud servers, this might make sense if you are reaching the free limits in your account(s).

The ways include Google Drive, Padlet, Dropbox/DropItToMe, AirDrop (for iPads), and Next Vista Learning. These would be good ways to get around the YouTube restrictions in some countries. T/H R. Byrne

Build a video library by importing videos from YouTube, G-Drive, or Dropbox. Then control the video with the MoocNote interface to take notes that link back to the appropriate places in the videos. Access notes from anywhere and share. You can also ask questions of the community. This looks like an excellent resource and tool.