Paperless+Classroom

Paperless Classroom - Resources and Notes: Presenter - Mary Hall


media type="file" key="The Angry Soup Of Racism.mov" media type="file" key="BAMS movie.mov" media type="file" key="long silver guns3.mov" A poetry project based on the study of a poem selected by the students for in depth study.

[|Edublogs]

A blog created to communicate about WSD's alliance with the Anti-defamation League (ADL)

[|MY Access!]

An online literacy program

Wikispaces

A collaboration forum for students who were working on public service announcements as part of their study of //Our Town// and //Romeo and Juliet.// Paperless classroom The presenter shared information about tools she uses to create a paperless classroom. She did share that there are times when she does still have students print.

wikis: [|http://wikispaces.com] Blogs: [|edublogs.org] Voicethread [|http://voicethread.com] Discussion boards available in moodle or blackboard
 * More Collaboration Tools**


 * Bloggers Notes:**

Turning In Work
 * Use a file naming protocol: mHall_CFFKeynote.key is an example of what she uses.
 * To get work from and back to students she suggested Moodle or Blackboard

Blogs: edublog, voicethread are ways to give individuals feedback, the issue is that it is not private.

Turnitin: interface through Moodle

For Assessment/Feedback consider the following tools:
 * Artificial intelligence
 * Mark-up view in Word
 * Moodle/Blackboard both have features that are good for assessment

For recording/reporting grades consider:
 * Electronic gradebook
 * Web posting of grades
 * Moodle/Blackboard
 * Online programs

Problems that can be encountered in a paperless classroom:
 * Returning work to students
 * Access by all students to computers out side of school
 * Students not having access to all the software available to them in school

Pluses of a paperless classroom
 * Work can be turned in at any time or place
 * Teacher can receive at any time or place via networked computer
 * Multiple readers can read simultaneously
 * Appearance is uniform
 * Ability to refer to linked information (papers are not linear, but are meshed like the Internet).
 * Supports multimedia projects


 * Things I've been reading**

Christel, Mary T. and Scott Sullivan, ed. //Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms.//NCTE: Urbana, IL, 2007.

Richardson, Will. //Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Tools for Classrooms.//Corwin Press: Thousand Oaks, CA, 20006.

Furr III, Grover C. From “Paperless Classroom to “Deep Reading”? Five Stages in Internet Pedagogy. 1/29/2008. [|http://technologysource.org] 9/2003