It's been quite a week for announcements. First there was Dreamspark, then XNA 3.0 and now 5GB of Skydrive storage space. As Ray Fleming points out on the Higher Education blog,
"Anybody can get a SkyDrive, as it's free - just sign up for it using your Windows Live/Passport ID, and you too can have 5GB of file storage online, with file storage areas for private, shared and public files. Gone are the days of moving files between home and work with a USB drive (which inevitably got lost somewhere between the two places).
Imagine - all of your students currently carrying their data around on a USB memory stick (and busily plugging them into USB ports all around your campus), could be using this. What would it cost you to give every one of your students 5GB of Internet-accessible storage on your network?
We include SkyDrive in our Live @ Edu service, which means that you could automatically provide accounts to all of your students, linked to their university email address."
Share files with the world
Some ideas are too good to keep to yourself. Share them in a public folder that only you can update.
Store files for yourself
Using multiple computers? No problem. Store and access your personal files from anywhere online.
Share files with friends
Sharing with friends, co-workers, or family is easy when you all add and update files in a shared folder.
Claire
