Thursday, October 22, 2009

Re: The "Green" (Paperless) Classroom

There is a tool called EduPlatform, that facilitates the " Green" =
paperless
environment for networked environments like computer labs and other one =
to
one settings.....Not only can you send and receive files quickly and
efficiently but you can also create Digital Lessons where you can
incorporate and sequence Digital resources from a variety of Web based
applications and/or Software application files. It also includes a =
student
response system and self graded assessments.......

Giovanni Paoli, M.Ed.
Educational Consultant
Dreyfous & Associates
gpaoli@dreyfous.com
Office: 787-706-2700
Cell Phone: 787-365-0054


-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Constantine, Norman
Sent: mi=E9rcoles, 21 de octubre de 2009 06:57 a.m.
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: The "Green" (Paperless) Classroom

An interesting piece that you wrote here. I must take some issue however
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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> Manlius Pebble Hill School
> 5300 Jamesville Rd
> DeWitt, NY 13214
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> Website: http://www.gatling.us/keith
> Blog: http://wordfromg.blogspot.com
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> Some teachers teach subjects. Others teach students.
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Norman Constantine
Director of Technology Integration
Wakefield School
The Plains, VA

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