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How to Have a Paperless Classroom

Explore practical ideas by Allison Smith for a paperless classroom using email, MS PowerPoint, WebCT, discussion boards, scanning, websites, and over-write software. Learn efficient methods for student interaction, distribution of materials, assignments, grading, and collaboration. Make your classes digitally based, enabling easy access to course content and reducing paper waste. Contact Allison Smith from the English Department for further information.

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How to Have a Paperless Classroom

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  1. How to Have a Paperless Classroom SOME PRACTICAL IDEAS from Allison Smith, English

  2. Use E-mail (with Attachments): • For class distribution lists • To deal with absent students • For reminders (what’s due, what to read,…) • For students to contact each other (for revision, editing, group work)

  3. Use MS Power Point: • For lecture material in class • To post lectures on web sites or WebCT • To email missed materials to absent students • To highlight important information • To provide handouts (have students print out before coming to class)

  4. Use WebCT: • Announcements • Syllabus and other Course Documents • Handouts • Video Clips • Assignments • Discussion Board

  5. Use the Discussion Board: • For student discussion with each other • For answers to posted questions (and subsequent discussion) • For shared journals, informal writing, and other class assignments

  6. Use Scanning: • For handouts from supplemental texts • For samples of assignments from previous classes • To send back a graded paper (when the student gives you one in non-digital form)

  7. Use Web Sites: • Create your own (http://www2.latech.edu/~asmith/Engl575/575atoc.html) • Link to others • Have students create their own for assignments

  8. Be digitally based: • State clearly on syllabus • Use computer classrooms when available • Have students use university labs • Have students turn in assignments digitally (on disk, through email attachments, as web sites, through Blackboard attachments, …)

  9. A Special Mention about Digitally-Based Classes: • Less to carry around! • Can utilize plagiarism programs (like http://www.turnitin.com) • Can use over-write software programs (like Word, Word Perfect, …) • Saves paper • Saves time (spent making copies) • Saves money

  10. Use Over-Write Software: • For digital office hour comments • For revision workshops • For editing workshops • For digital tests and assignments • For grading papers

  11. MS Word Over-Writing: • View, Toolbars, Reviewing (for over-write menu) • Insert comments (use New Comment button) • Write comments (choose font, color, size in Show, Options) • Delete (by using Backspace, Delete, or Control X on keyboard) and leave comment • Highlight (use Highlight on formatting menu)

  12. Use Sample Student Paper: • Try inserting a comment in a comment box • Try just typing in a comment • Try deleting something and then adding a comment • Try highlighting

  13. Contact me: • Allison Smith, English Department • adsmith@mtsu.edu • Phone: 904-8266 • Office: PH 328B

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