Working from Home

I have to say that working from home (working at home? via home? in home? What is the appropriate preposition?) is not my favorite thing. I'm getting used to a MacBook - the keyboard is odd, too flat or something. Because I don't yet feel comfy working with the wordprocessing interface, I still need to take student work to my desktop for editing/comments/grading. Then I upload their work using the laptop after downloading their work to a flash drive (just a tiny thing), uploading to my desktop, downloading again, and finally uploading graded work to the "Dropbox" for our course. I can leave a message for them when I return their work, but I've learned that my message should not be anything related to the evaluation of their work: students who drop the course are erased from the website, and any comments I've made to them are erased, too. So I keep copies of all work and send a "Here's your latest assignment" message when I return their graded work.

All these tricks I've learned the hard way by teaching online (or should I say "teaching" online: I just don't think of it as teaching in the way I'm used to teaching - too thin!).