Going+Paperless

= = =One teacher's attempt to go paperless!= =Summer Laptop Institute 2009= Joguldi. __Endless grading of term papers__. Digital image. __Flickr__. 30 Apr. 2007. 12 June 2009.

Peer Pressure Old Dog Money Talks Only lastly am I principled

For the teacher: Book, handwritten assignment on board, by hand (pros, cons) For the student: Notebook, handwritten responses (pros, cons)

For the teacher: Elmo (video camera projector, book (pros, cons) For the student: Notebook, handwritten or wordprocessed response (pros, cons)

For the teacher: projection of text (pros, cons) For the student: blog, moodle (pros, cons)

3. There is no ONE Way to go paperless. Variety of Tools that work together for YOU and YOUR classroom.
Here are the top five from my experiences this year:

**1. Instead of writing comments on paper with a pen:**
Digital Inking Pen and tablet Voicethreadmedia type="custom" key="4146939"

Pros: Cons: 

**2. Instead copying texts on the copier and passing out to class:**
[|Gutenberg e-library] [|Bibliomania]

Copy text into word, upload to moodle, or link to webpage.

Some things I want to try next year:

Scanning into pdf (I think copyright is limited to 5% of text) Annotation possibilities: [|Diigo] [|Awesome Highlighter]

**3. I ****nstead of having students print out work and hand in, they upload work to repositories. **
I use moodle, network, ugh and email.

Some things I want to try/stuff suggested to me:

[|Form Spring][|Nicenet][|dropbox][|Google Docs][|Student Center Connect]

Sometimes the repository dictates the responses. Example: moodle (check out my ninth grade rubric for dialectic journals).

 ** 4. Use Classroom Management Tools to push websites, assignments, calendars etc. to students **
I use [|moodle]. There are many others.

If your school isn't using moodle, check out [|Edmodo],[|Angel],[|Blackboard] 

**5. Experiment with new collaborative and quizzing tools.**
I've tried Moodle quizzes this year.

Other things I want to try:

[|My Studiyo] [|Zoho]

Of course, creative and wonderful teachers are also using wikis ([|Great Classroom management wiki]) nings ([|James M's classroom ning]), blogs ([|Baldworm Blog])

Some of my goto resources this year:

[|Teach Paperless Blog] [|Ten Technologies for laptop environments] [|English Companion Ning Conversation on Paperless English Classes] My [|Twitter]verse