Almost Paperless Teaching

I am very fortunate to teach a class called Technology in the Classroom at a graduate level to adult learners in a master degree program.  I teach this course with a dear teaching friend Wendy.

We gave out two pieces of paper, roughly 100 sheets, during this 8 week course.  One was an assignment list (first night) and the other was a learning log (last night).  Both could really only be done with paper.

How did we do it?

• Blackboard.  The university uses Blackboard for it's course management and posted much of our work there.
• Moodle.  I had access to Moodle through a teacher friend.  I used Moodle for my content to show the difference between Moodle and Blackboard (other than the cost).
• All kinds of Web 2.0 tools:
• wikis
• blogs
• Google Docs
• Google Voice
• Edmodo
• And those are just the paper replacements.  We used many more Web 2.0 tools that make teaching and learning so much better!

Next year, no paper.  Should be good!