I was recently in a Social Studies Department meeting. The topic turned to a discussion about when they’ll get more printing paper for their classes. Not being familiar with the number of cases of paper teachers received from the school, I asked how much paper they were given. I was told they received a case of paper per semester.
They noticed my surprised look and stated that it was still not enough. And, here’s the kicker, their students have Chromebooks assigned to them! It’s a one to one school!
There are many reasons to go paperless with some classroom assignments, among them is time saved at the copy machine.
Teachers could save a lot of time by going paperless with these apps:
1. If you’re using Chromebooks in your class, you gotta check out Kami. Kami is a fantastic PDF annotation web app. Students can open up a document in Kami, annotate to their hearts content with text boxes, highlights, or with their stylus, and then upload it to your LMS.
2. Whether you’ve got iPads in your class or Chromebooks, the Showbie app is an easy way to go paperless in your classroom. Showbie is available on the web as well as an iOS app. Upload a PDF to Showbie and students can annotate with a text box or drawing tool. Showbie also allows students to highlight text. One of the really cool things about Showbie is the ability for students to leave a voice note on a document. Showbie can also serve as an LMS of sorts in that you can distribute and collect work.
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