Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

http://www.getgspace.com/

Last week (or maybe it was the week before) I read about using Gspace as online server space. So…it uses 2GB of a person’s gmail account as backup server space. I’m all about finding spaces for students to save their work; especially when they don’t own their own computer. On the one hand, I like this; however, I think it is worth telling students to email themselves as backup…so it would be redundant to backup via gmail and gspace–ie, if google’s server crashes, both will be lost. So I’m still thinking that student should use gmail, back up their documents via email to themselves, and then use another free server space as a secondary backup.

Free online server space options:

• http://box.net/
• http://www.xdrive.com/
• http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2098943,00.asp (article comparing six services)

Obviously, I’m implying that gmail is the email service students should be using. I love my gmail account…and with various GreaseMonkey java scripts running, I don’ t have adds, adapt my interface, etc.