Make Your Class Site a Home Base for Students

When you make good use of your virtual, paperless classroom, it will become a home base online for your students. In other words, they will be used to logging into your site, no matter where they’re going from there. For example, we use a testing program called, Achievement Series. Now, I can get my students [...]

Flexibility Is King in Virtual Classroom

In school, teachers and students live by the bells, and there never seems to be much flexibility. Life in The Paperless Classroom is much different. Unlike the old 1980s class, where hard copies rule, educating in the virtual world allows teachers and students an amazing amount of flexibility. For example, you never have to worry [...]

Grading in Cyberspace

Although it is not necessarily faster than working with hard copies, I love grading assignments in cyberspace for many reasons. One is the obvious green effect that I’ve discussed in other posts. Eliminating paper use is an important goal that all teachers in the new millennium should have.Apart from saving the environment, though, I love [...]