Recently I was asked by one of my high school principals to introduce Dropbox to his staff so that they might be able to easily transfer their lesson plans to him. I found a great tutorial online at the following address: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-use-dropbox-2011-2#heres-the-dropbox-home-page-to-register-click-the-tiny-arrow-next-to-log-in-at-the-top-1 . Since it also mentioned Mac computers I did make a few deletions for this presentations. This tutorial basically explains how to download Dropbox onto your PC and smart phone. It also gives the basics of how to upload files into Dropbox. See the tutorial below.
OK, now that you know how to download Dropbox and upload items into it, what about transferring your lesson plans to your principal? Sharing files with others can be accomplished in one of two ways. "The easiest way is to place files in your Public folder inside the Dropbox. Control click that file and you’ll see a Dropbox submenu. In that menu is an option to copy the public link for that file. Paste that link into an email and when the recipient clicks it the file will download to his/her computer."
"The second way to share files is to create a new folder in your Dropbox and share it. Sharing can be accomplished in your Dropbox online account. If you click the dropdown menu of your folder you can choose to share that folder. A form will appear and you enter the address of the person you want to share that folder with (the person will need a Dropbox account). That person will receive an email inviting him/her to share that folder or file. Once accepted the folder or file will appear in his/her Dropbox." http://www.brighthub.com/computing/mac-platform/articles/63673.aspx
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