box.net


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This is a file share and hosting website. The idea is instead of storing data on your own media, you upload it to box.net and you can collaborate with co-workers, class-mates, etc. There is a cost for hosting and large files, but if you use the free service you can store up to 1GB of data, which is why I chose this web 2.0 tool.

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The challenges faced by my students would be the most obvious in the lack of internet access at home. Of course there may be issues with their computer system and if it would support the box.net application, but this shouldn’t be that difficult. Signing up may also be an issue, as some of my students do not have an email account, so they will need to create one or use their parent’s acct. The objective of this lesson would be to introduce file share websites and the benefit of them for collaboration and obtaining files. Since our students in 5-8 have flashdrives to save work in school, we do not allow them to go home so as not to infect our system with a virus! With the file share application, they can do work at home and upload to the box.net storage where they could access in school to either complete, have teachers edit to collaborate on the writing process, work with other students, print, etc.

The ISTE standards the students will be addressing are as follows: Creativity & Innovation (1a, 1b) Communication and Collaboration (2a, 2b, 2d) Research and Information Fluency (3b, 3c, 3d) Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) Digital Citizenship (5a, 5b, 5c) Technology Operations and Concepts (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d)

The students will learn how to create a [|www.box.net] account and use this web 2.0 tool for home projects. The students will be able to apply their knowledge on many technological skills previously learned and work with [|www.box.net]. In class I will begin by demonstrating what [|www.box.net] is and how to go about creating an account with the aforementioned video tutorials. I will put the tutorials on my website for them to access at a future time in case they need to revisit the videos when working at home. We will look at the aspects of the file share/hosting applications and how they can benefit the students working at home, in school or anywhere they need to access files, or collaborate with others. They will need to remember their user name and passwords to access at a future date and collaborate. This application will help with those kids who consistently tell their teacher that their printer at home has no ink or doesn’t work, so they can open at school and print in the building to hand in the project. Or the teacher can access the file and open, where he/she can create comments right on the document, etc. and avoid the paper trail totally! It is not only efficient, but “green” to use the [|www.box.net] application. No formal assessments will be used with this application, however, the teacher will be able to observe that students are using the file share site and won’t have excuses in the future that they couldn’t get their assignments completed in time.
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