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7 winter 2014
Your paperless toolkit: CELL PHONE APPS
If school policy allows your students to have cell phones in class, turn those
devices into a learning tool. Poll Everywhere is an app that allows educators to
engage their students in real time. Ask a question with the Poll Everywhere app,
and students can respond anonymously with their cell phones. The entire class
can watch responses roll in live on the web or in a PowerPoint presentation.
See www.polleverywhere.com.
Your paperless toolkit: PASSWORD
Teach your students how to play "Password" to strengthen foreign language skills
or learn new vocabulary. In pairs, one student must get their partner to guess the
appropriate word by describing or giving examples without using the word, similar
to the game "Catch Phrase." Students have to stretch their vocabulary to get their
partner to correctly identify the word.
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Your paperless toolkit: MICROSOFT ONENOTE
This free resource is essentially an electronic notebook. It allows educators and
students to organize materials, create a portfolio, communicate with others, and
assess their progress. Howard says her students use OneNote as a one-stop shop.
It's where they fnd everything they need to be successful and participate fully in
class. And best of all, it's FREE! See www.onenote.com.
Log on to the ATPE Professional Learning Portal via the ATPE
Resources page (http://www.atpe.org/en/Resources) to view
the on-demand webinar by Jillian Howard, "The Paperless
Classroom." You will earn one hour of CPE credit and get
access to immediate resources and tips to help you eliminate
some, or all, of the paper from your classroom! "The Paperless
Classroom" includes great information about how to prepare
for a paperless classroom from an educator who has already
made the switch.
Jillian Howard at the 2014 ATPE Summit.
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