Web Based File Sharing

Hi there Steve and Classroom 2.0 community. I am physics teacher and have created a lot of lab activities in Word format. I would like to share these with other physics/science teachers and so am looking for a good place on the web to store them. I need to be able to update them and others can download them. If others can provide feedback that would be nice too. Most of the docs contain formatting and drawings which get butchered by Google Docs, so that option is out. Other recommendations?

Thank you in advance,

Brian

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Permalink Reply by Gregory Zobel on November 16, 2008 at 7:00pm

I have used 4shared.com for a couple of my classes on a trial basis. While I have only used it for PDFs and Word docs, it's been satisfactory. One benefit is that it is password protected.

Best,
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Permalink Reply by Britt Gow on November 17, 2008 at 3:41am

Hi Brian,
I have used Docstoc successfully in the past, for Word and pdf files. Worth trying.

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Permalink Reply by James Dykstra on November 17, 2008 at 5:03am

Some wikis (such as Wikidot) will allow you to attach files to your page. This way you could describe your assignment as well as provide a Word (or other format) copy of it.

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Permalink Reply by Brent Jones on November 17, 2008 at 11:02am

How about google docs or zoho.com as published documents?

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Permalink Reply by Jay Fogleman on November 18, 2008 at 4:44am

I agree w/ Jen. I use scribd because it allows me to upload docs in most formats and then embed them in our class wikispace. On the wiki, my students can either read or print the documents.
- Jay

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Permalink Reply by Rob Darrow on November 18, 2008 at 6:30am

I'd encourage you to put these in Curriki (www.curriki.org). Curriki is quickly becoming the place where educators are putting their course elements to be shared with many.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Lamore on November 19, 2008 at 2:06pm

Yes, I have heard of Curriki but had forgotten about it. Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by suehellman on November 18, 2008 at 9:53pm

Try a website called: We the Teachers.

You can also store them in a Freepath playlist and make them available to other teachers through the bigreturns group. For instructions take a look at my blog post: Joining the 'bigreturns' group in myFreepath