This CNET article has a nice roundup of free and for-fee web services where people can upload large files that they may want to share with others. Although a lot of students just email files to themselves, saving them to one of these web services offers very valuable additional functionality:
- larger files can be stored than may be permissible in an email service
- you’re not clogging up your email account with large files you’re trying to store there
- instead of sifting through your email looking for the one with that file attachment, the web services give you clear navigation of your hosted files
- some services give you a unique URL for each file you upload, which makes it easy to share the file with your classmates, friends, teachers, etc. (you just email those folks the unique URL so they can download your file)