with your position. Let us just concentrate on not using paper in the
classroom. It should not be about saving tress, but about saving money. A
very low estimate of a ream of copy paper is $3.00 a ream. Since schools buy
in bulk let us drop that to $2.50 a ream, heck let us say $2.00 a ream. If
you save 1 ream of paper per week in every class in the school and in every
office in the school it begins to add up in real dollars. Dollars not spent
on paper can be spent on many other things. Add in printer ink and you
really start to save. Take away all of the staff and teacher time spent
maintaining the printers and copiers, plus the leases for the copiers and
the dollars continue to pile up. I will leave out the law breaking that goes
on at the copier or printers in the classrooms. It should not be about Tree
hugging.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Keith E Gatling <keith@gatling.us> wrote:
> I think I need to clarify. I teach Computer Literacy and Programming
> classes. So my handouts are more along the lines of "How do you do this?"
>
> I don't have a textbook for any of my classes because I didn't like the way
> the available textbooks worked. Every Computer Literacy textbook I've ever
> seen assumed that you were learning this to use in a business instead of as
> a student or for your personal life.
>
> I give my programming students the complete 80-page set of handouts
> (printed
> double-sided, of course) on the first day of class, punched to go into a
> binder. It's pretty much their textbook (check out
> http://www.gatling.us/keith/class/javajive/).
>
> With my 6th, 7th, and 9th graders there are a series of task-related
> handouts that I've written and used over the years, but tried not to print
> out this year, as part of that "green" effort. They can be found at
> http://www.gatling.us/keith/class/handouts.html.
>
> These are the kinds of handouts that a person generally wants to have on
> their desk as they work through something the first few times.
>
> And I guess I'll be writing two new ones tonight.
> --
> keg
>
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