Below is a quick view of the Keep and Share dashboard on their site.
My 5th graders have been creating PowerPoint presentation about moving on to middle school and their fifth grade farewell. The students have been working very hard on these presentations and of course want to take home their work. In the past, I have saved all of the PowerPoints to CDs for the students. This is expensive and time consuming since there are 122 fifth graders at my school.
I created a Keep and Share account to see if there would be a way for me to upload the student PowerPoints and share them with an individual link for the students to access them at home. It was very quick and easy to upload the PowerPoint to the site. I have set it to public view so that you can view a student PowerPoint that was uploaded to this site.
So far I am very pleased with this site and I plan on uploading the other student PowerPoints later this week. I think this site would be great for sharing and publishing student work from school. This site will also allow parents and students to view their work outside of school. This site could also be helpful for sharing homework assignments or documents from in class with students. If a student was absent, a teacher could upload their missed work to the site, set it to be viewed only by that student/parent, and give them the web address for the activity.
I think I may also use this site for use with the staff at my school when we need to share large files that are taking up space on our school's shared drive.
I think this site sounds great! I also have had the problem of students wanting to take their work home. In the past, we have uploaded their work to a wiki or the students have brought in a USB drive and we saved it to their disk for them to take home. This seems like an easier way to share their work.
ReplyDeleteI think that this is a great tool as a teacher. I can see using it in my classroom a lot! I upload important documents on my website, but this would be a great way to share a calendar. As a band director, having a calendar online would help the students to know when their classes are. It would also be a great way to share pictures with parents from the concert and our special performances and events. I also really like the discussion forum. This would be a great collaborative area to discuss topics with my students and also with parents.
ReplyDeleteThe only problem that I see with this website is the fact that since it is free, there are advertisements on the page. I am not sure that the advertisements will always be appropriate for students. Is there any way to find out if their advertisements are appropriate?
I know that if you upgrade to the premium account for $49.99 a year, it says on their site that it will be ad-free and even "when your friends or business colleagues view information from your account, if you have an upgraded account, they will not be shown ads".
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