Transporting Files Between Home and School

A jump drive is a compact storage device that can be used to save files to or from a computer. They are a handy and durable replacement to writing files to CD or floppy disk. Jump drives are smaller in size than a pack of gum and can be attached to a key chain, or worn around your neck. The jump drive plugs into the USB port of a computer, which then provides easy access to your files. Jump drives are also referred to as flash drives, and USB memory sticks. They can be purchased at every major retail and office supply store. As the storage capacity has gone up, the prices have come down and a 1GB jump drive can be found for under $20. We recommend that every student have their own jump drive and many teachers at Prairie require them for their classes. We do have jump drives in the Library Media Center available to students for a 1 week check-out, and they are very popular items!

Jump drives are the best way for students to transport their files between home and school. CD’s do not hold nearly as much data and are not as durable as jump drives. Many students think they can email themselves documents between home and school, only to find out that access to their personal email accounts are not allowed on school computers. Having a jump drive would alleviate many of the issues of transporting files between home and school and they are a great investment for students!