1. Paperless Classroom
My struggles, successes, and recommendations
for teaching in a paperless classroom.
By Steve Katz
KORCOS Conference
March 11, 2011

2. Objectives
• Teachers will be able to implement paperless
assignments in their classes.
• Teachers will be able to decide between Google
Docs & e-mail for paperless assignments.

3. What is a paperless classroom?

4. Conditions for Success
• 1:1 computing
• Bandwidth
• E-mail (and Google Docs)
• Method of disseminating information
• CMS, web site, wiki, blog
• Be prepared to fail

5. Reasons to go Paperless
• Improved learning environment
• Improved organization
• More efficient
• Save the Earth?

6. I’m Not Talking About
• Not using books
• An absolute ban
PS. I don’t hate paper!

7. Getting Started
• Establish a routine
• Collect e-mail addresses
• Create group e-mail lists

8. E-mailing Assignments
• Decide on a format (Word, Pages, rtf)
• File naming system
• Assignment name - block - student name

9. Create Filters
• Train students to put “HW” as the subject
• Must be exact
• Homework folder for mail
• Grade, insert comments, send back

10. Benefits of E-mail
• Student work on your hard drive.
• Due date easy to measure. (On Time?)
• Teacher is in control of work handed in.

11. Problems with E-mail
• Students don’t name assignments correctly.
• Student’s don’t put correct subject in email.
• Many files on hard drive.

12. Google Docs
• Create “collection” to share with students
• Students create collection to share with teacher
• Collection naming system
• Class or block - student name
• File naming system
• Assignment name - block - student name

13. Benefits of gDocs
• Access anywhere with Internet
• Revision history
• No email
• Can copy docs
• Collaboration

14. Problems with gDocs
• No Internet
• Student can erase file

15. Web 2.0
• Collaboration:
• Blogs, wikis, & nings
• Presentation:
• Voicethread, Glogster, Prezi

16. Resources
• Teach Paperless Blog http://
teachpaperless.blogspot.com/
• Paperless Ideas http://bit.ly/korcos-paperless
• My paperless blog posts http://bit.ly/twv-paperless

17. Paperless Classroom
My struggles, successes, and recommendations for
teaching in a paperless classroom.
By Steve Katz
http://www.stevenkatz.com
http://twitter.com/stevekatz
skatz@kis.or.kr