Thing 6: dropbox

I love Dropbox.com. Imagine never worrying whether or not you forgot your flash drive at home on exam day. This happened to me this past year, and while the students didn't mind having an extra day to prepare, it can really throw off your schedule. Dropbox is a cloud storage website that you can access anywhere. Even if you are using a computer where you cannot install any software, you can still login and access any file that you have saved. If you can install their software though, you can open up even more awesomeness. Dropbox acts as a folder on your computer. If you are working on a MSWord document, you can click save and tell it to save it in your dropbox folder. You can then open up that file on any computer or even mobile devices. I use it on almost a daily basis when school is in session. You start off with a relatively small amount of free space, but you have the ability to increase to several gigs. I highly recommend using this website.