Teach Paperless blog by Shelly Blake-Plock

Paperless wiki

Share ideas for going paperless on this Google Doc.

Pledge to go paperless.

See the list of over 1400 teachers from around the world who have pledged to go paperless for Earth Day.

See a map of these teachers.

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I decided to apply the same idea to a “paperless” day at school. The idea was to do something that has a positive ecological impact while promoting the technology integration push at my school. I proposed to the high school student government that our school be paperless on Earth Day (April 22), and it was enthusiastically adopted by the students.

After speaking to a few people at school about going paperless I decided to try to make a greater impact with this idea. I started tweeting about it and was getting a very positive response. I made contact with Shelly Blake-Plock, the leader in paperless education, and shortly thereafter he had a post on his Teach Paperless blog about the idea. He also created a place where teachers can pledge to go paperless for Earth Day. Take a look at the list, which has over 650 teachers from all over the world pledging to go paperless.

I also started a Google Doc and wiki page for sharing ideas on alternatives to using paper.

Consider taking the pledge, and think about this first paperless day as one step toward finding alternatives for paper in your class, and improving instruction with the use of technology.