Paperless Educator

I read through The Paperless Classroom about becoming a paperless educator. I think that it is possible to become a paperless educator to an extent. You cannot avoid textbooks and workbooks, because lets face it, sometimes it is just easiest for the students to write out their work on paper and read from a textbook.

The best way to go about becoming a paperless classroom is to be organized. Every subject and assignment needs its own folder and sub-folders. You, the teacher, also need to understand how to work online assignments and group projects in order to explain to your students.

Once you are comfortable with these programs and have an organization system that works for you, you will be able to start getting your students involved. All of your students will need an e-mail address.

You can start out with Google docs. There are many different programs to use on Google docs.: email, blog, websites, questionnaires, documents, presentations, spreadsheet, forms, drawings and tables.

One really great way to go paperless would be instead of writing papers they could be done on a computer and submitted online. Instead of writing out multiple rough drafts and a final copy, students can type up their rough draft, submit it for peer/teacher editing, and then revise it (without having to rewrite the whole thing and using multiple pages of paper) and turn the paper in via e-mail or however you would like to have it turned into you.