I decided that it was time to tackle another MAJOR problem in my tech world - organizing my lesson materials so that I can access them whenever I need to, where ever I need to on whatever laptop or computer or tablet is in front of me. That is a pretty major job considering the number of moving parts in my lessons, but I am willing to eat the elephant one bite at a time until it is done.
I started by backing up my external hard drive (my life support) to the server. It took three full days, but now I can rest easier knowing that my files are in more than one location.
I then decided to start with my September lessons and update them for this coming school year. I started a media file folder for each PowerPoint and linked the sound and video files right to that folder. My hope is that by setting things up this way I can easily transfer from one computer to another without having to re-link all of the media files. I'm not done yet. It's taking longer than I thought, but I am also doing a pretty major revamp of my first grade lessons, so that is taking a good chunk of time.
At this point I have enough space in Dropbox to save the files there. I am thinking that I will use Dropbox as my go between for the files I am using currently in my classroom and then back up to the server and my external hard drive when that month's worth of lessons is ready to be archived. Or maybe I'll just bite the bullet and buy more storage space...time will tell.
Does this sound like the best way to eat this elephant? Any ideas for upgrades?
