The Paperless classroom

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Stanley on December 29, 2010 at 5:55am

Using podcasts, forums for discussions, schooltube, cell technologies, simple audio and video tools such as moviemaker or photostory, google docs (we use this all of the time), building wiki's for information, and survey or test tools (such as: Zoomerang, Doodle Poll) that are online can help you become more paperless.

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Permalink Reply by Jill B on December 29, 2010 at 3:38pm

Those are some great sites. I just finished watching a pod cast on project based learning based using mobile devices. It was by Tony Vincent. It was called project based learning in hand. He introduced some really great apps.

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Stanley on December 30, 2010 at 1:26pm

What a great site...with terrific ideas on how to use mobile devices...one thing to remmber is that you have to have the infrastructure  in place to store the massive growth of technological programs (video's, etc)

A school needs the adminstrators, parents, teachers, students, and the business community working together to get the job done. It cannot be one teacher, but the commitment of many to do make this change. Schedules, inservices, projects, the full support of the educational and school community is essential in organizing this type of change.

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Permalink Reply by Robin Phares on December 29, 2010 at 3:29pm

I came across a great online test maker.  It is very easy and requires no registration. (Plus, it's FREE!)  I just wrote about it in my blog. http://talkingtechwithrobin.blogspot.com/2010/12/testmoz.html

Let me know what you think. 

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Permalink Reply by Jill B on December 29, 2010 at 3:35pm

Thanks, ronin. I will go try it out and let you know

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Stanley on December 30, 2010 at 1:28pm

Quia is another great resource for testing...http://www.quia.com/web

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Permalink Reply by E Cohen on December 29, 2010 at 5:52pm

This blog is an interesting read for paperless classrooms--

http://teachpaperless.blogspot.com/

 

I teach fifth grade and have been trying to become paperless, but still have a ways to go, particularly in math.  It's that "Show your work" thing that's getting me most...but also, its the gravity of using premade worksheets/activities that can't easily (quickly) be made into an online activity.  I have been using edu20.org for my learning portal, and that has helped a good deal with online assignments and online tests/quizzes, discussions.

 

Good luck

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Permalink Reply by Jill B on December 29, 2010 at 9:37pm

5th grade also. Yes, I found math to be the tough one for paperless as well. I do pretty good with science and was very successful for reading and writing. Our schools website has been a good portal for blogging and I recently discovered the classroom section of unitedstreaming.com. Thanks for the blog. Will be reading it.

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Permalink Reply by Jill B on February 4, 2011 at 2:33am

You can display worksheets on the interactive boards and students can write on them

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sherman on December 30, 2010 at 1:57am

Check out Free technology for teachers at http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ - great ideas and resources to integrate technology into classrooms and limit the use of paper :)

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Permalink Reply by Jill B on May 1, 2011 at 1:54pm

Thanks, Dan.

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Permalink Reply by David Wu on February 2, 2011 at 11:27pm

I found this article helpful. Microblogs can help engage students to participate in discussions and also give them hands-on practice with writing.

50 ways to use Twitter in the classroom:
http://www.teachhub.com/news/article/cat/14/item/462

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