| The paperless classroom gives K-12 teachers the | | | | secured by the teacher, create a remarkable |
| ability to build web-based instruction that intrigues | | | | opportunity for students to share what they've |
| learners like never before. Unlike a simple homework | | | | learned via web-based instruction. They can place |
| page, attached to a networked district website, | | | | writing, pictures, graphics or virtual presentations on |
| classroom websites offer much more. A completely | | | | their private student websites, which the teacher can |
| interactive paperless classroom involves the students | | | | grade from any Internet-connected computer, as |
| in a way that most district sites do not. | | | | unlike the networked class, the paperless classroom, |
| With a wiki-hosted paperless classroom, teachers can | | | | is completely web-based. |
| do more than simply direct students and parents to | | | | With a classroom website, teachers and students can |
| homework or classroom assignments. The classroom | | | | throw away their papers and folders. Anything they |
| website includes multiple web pages, each containing | | | | ever wish to keep or return to at a later time is |
| links to documents, PowerPoint presentations, | | | | housed in a secure online file cabinet. This is a part of |
| web-based testing sites, interactive learning stations | | | | web-based instruction that all K-12 students love; |
| and virtually anything a teacher wants to provide for | | | | they never lose the assignments they've worked so |
| students and parents. | | | | hard to complete. |
| A paperless classroom becomes the epicenter of any | | | | Teachers and parents love the communication factor. |
| K-12 teacher's class. It is a marvelous source of | | | | The teacher blog, podcast and activities page keep |
| communication, as the teacher blog and podcast give | | | | parents informed of everything that is going on in |
| parents several options to stay tuned into what their | | | | the classroom, including links to the same |
| children are doing and what the teacher has planned. | | | | presentations that their children see in the classroom. |
| Student websites, contained in an online Content | | | | Technology continues to evolve and the paperless |
| Management System,completely controlled and | | | | classroom is evolving right along with it. |