Reducing Printing and Going Paperless (was "Shared Google Drive")

[HEBDave]

I saw a discussion branching off and thought it might be good to start a new thread for it. What are your plans regarding printing and going paperless? Was that part of why you started using GAFE or part of the selling points for convincing decision-makers? Are you going paperless, and if so, what are you doing and what have you learned? 

I haven't heard any serious discussion of the paperless concept at our schools yet. My thought is that there are essential use cases for paper that can't be reasonably replaced with digital devices yet: quickly looking through several different documents spread out on a desk, large bulletin boards, etc. Therefore, I would advocate for digital solutions leading to very reduced printing needs while expanding the number of displays available per person. (I envision having 3 or so page-size electronic ink tablets so I can view multiple documents at once without printing them all. Not sure how/whether I would extend that idea to students.)

[Bjorn Behrendt]

My gClassFolders script is one of the ways I am trying to help teachers go paperless in their classrooms. https://sites.google.com/a/askbj.net/edlisten-resources/my-resources/gclassfolders

My principal hasn't taken my suggestion of just not purchase paper and make them go cold turky, but the reality is make it easy to go digital and make it hard to use paper.

I have also wanted to purchase a lab of tablets (android or iPad) and hand them out at faculty meetings instead of the printed adjenda.

Lastly I would suggest pushing the Flipped classroom techniques both for teachers and for administrators to use.

Bjorn Behrendt M.Ed ~ Never Stop Learning

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My Sites

 ~ Edlisten.com ~ EdListen 3: Creating a Student Podcast Show 1 (10/26/2012)

 ~ AskBj.net ~ Online Training and Ed Tech Resources

 ~ VTed.org ~ Vermont's Personal Learning Network

gClassFolders ~ Create Google folders for your class.

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:12 PM, HEBDave <heb...@gmail.com> wrote:

I saw a discussion branching off and thought it might be good to start a new thread for it. What are your plans regarding printing and going paperless? Was that part of why you started using GAFE or part of the selling points for convincing decision-makers? Are you going paperless, and if so, what are you doing and what have you learned? 

I haven't heard any serious discussion of the paperless concept at our schools yet. My thought is that there are essential use cases for paper that can't be reasonably replaced with digital devices yet: quickly looking through several different documents spread out on a desk, large bulletin boards, etc. Therefore, I would advocate for digital solutions leading to very reduced printing needs while expanding the number of displays available per person. (I envision having 3 or so page-size electronic ink tablets so I can view multiple documents at once without printing them all. Not sure how/whether I would extend that idea to students.)

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