This is exciting. An Android App for Drop.io is in the works! Academics with Android phones should be very excited about this. I use Drop.io to have students submit papers. I use Drop.io to help me share files with students, but still be within Fair Use Guidelines. Drop.io is, all around, an incredibly useful tool for college professors.

Now, I’m going to have a client for my Android phone. This is going to be a must have app for college professors with Android smart phones. Here’s a preview of the app. (Here’s a link to the developer’s site with more info)

2 Responses to “Drop.io App for Android Phones: Preview”

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   Jonathon Hricko

   September 27, 2009 at 2:07 am

   Thanks for the interesting post! You mention here that you use Drop.io to help you share files with students, but still be within Fair Use Guidelines. I was just wondering what it is that you have to do to be within Fair Use Guidelines. More specifically, is it that you have to use some kind of password protection on Drop.io? Or is it enough to just send your students a URL without any password protection, which I believe you could do with either Drop.io or Dropbox?

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   Andrew Cullison

   September 27, 2009 at 6:21 pm

   My understanding is that a necessary condition for being withing Fair Use Guidelines for material that is not public domain is some kind of password protection.

   Drop.io offers password protection. I have a course blog with a readings page that is password protected. I then use Drop.io hidden links…the site itself is not password protected, but I only link to readings in the Drop via hidden links that are behind a password protected page.

   You also have the option in Drop.io of password protecting the drop.

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