The writer of a blog called TeachPaperless is promoting a campaign to get teachers to sign up to not use paper on Earth Day. I haven't committed. But the fact is, I'm using much less paper than I did only a couple of years ago. Things I used to hand out I now put on Moodle as PDF's. With the Moodle version of Reader, students can't write on the page (we have tablets), but they can easily transfer to Word or OneNote and do so (as a freshman taught me). I also have the option of projecting things to a screen.
There are a couple of things that I have had students hand in on paper still, but most work goes through Moodle, or now, on a blog.
Tests are still on paper (though I've done some Moodle quizzes). But I am fairly close to... paperless. Well, time to go back to grading some online essays.
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C'mon... take the pledge!
ReplyDeleteIt's only one day. Think of it as an experiment. See where your teaching (and your students' learning) goes.
- Shelly
@TeachPaperless
www.teachpaperless.com
Oh, I think I've been experimenting mightily for a while now, and the results are mostly good, except that some of my "digital natives" complain at times that they prefer paper.
ReplyDeleteI guess it wouldn't be difficult to commit to one day!