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I read the article The Wisdom of Student 2.0 on the weblogg-ed blog by Will Richardson which was simply a comment of a student who cannot access any of his school documents because the school sever is down and he says that he is going to star using Google Docs. A question was also posed by a commenter on this blog of why do schools spend a lot of money on these big servers when they could use Google Docs for free. I think the answer to this question is that if you used Google Docs, there is no way that a teacher can look in your files if needed. Another issue is that you would need the internet. The internet goes down just like the server did sometimes. Our server at Arapahoe has some good features to it like the drop box feature. You cannot have that with Google Docs. I think that schools should continue to use server but should also encourage students to back-up their files on Google Docs or on a USB. The school should not blame the students though for having a crashed server. A new policy should be adopted to end these headaches though. I think schools should require you to back up your work somewhere else. Since Google Docs is free I think this would be a good option to use. If all of the information was backed up somewhere else the server crash would not effect anyone and life would be able to continue on normally. I do think Google Docs is a good source to keep your files for back up but I also think that school servers need to stay.