Sharing Your Work

1.1. Popular File Sharing Sites

Free services are always subject to change.  At the writing of this course, this most ubiquitous of the sharing services is Google Drive.  Other popular free services are Dropbox, iCloud and SkyDrive. 

SkyDrive is a Microsoft service that is about to be renamed to OneDrive as the result of a lawsuit.  It is the default cloud service on any new computer pre-installed with Windows.  You do not have to use it but it will always appear as an option.

Unless you wish make your documents fully public, an account will be required from anyone who wishes to access your files.  This account is often an email account as well and will provide access to other features.

For this course, we will work with examples from Google Drive.  You need Internet access and a Google account to access Google Drive.