Today I’ve been filing and filing and filing. I don’t know how I let it get out of control like this. And I thought that with the advent of email and the whole electronic age, paper was going to be reduced. It seems more like the a case of Global writing to me.
I think that this is one of the reasons I’d like to see more of us in the educational world get use to using and communicating via the web with the tools available to us. I know that some people need to have a hard copy but my experience has told me that once you get use to a different method, you soon begin to see the advantages. Now, in education there is a certain need for the presence of a hardcopy of things, especially when signatures are involved. But for most of the other things, lets move on to the digital world. I’d especially like to see the government begin to send us all the information and other material through the web using a template with the signature of whomever is sending the document. That way I wouldn’t have a file full of letters explaining why I’m getting the pamphlet that I won’t use. This would also apply in the assignment department where students could send us copies of their assignments, we could read them, type in our comments (which my students would really like) and then lock them and send it back – no paper used. If we could figure out how to do this with most of our assignments, think of the paper we’d save. Having said this, I’ve read that the PA Pulp Mill might have sold so maybe these aren’t such great ideas for our provincial economy!
I’m looking forward to this weekend – it’s our first basketball tournament and we’ll see how the girls and I do. I’m working on sitting for most of the game and their working on listening when I talk to them on the bench, if I sit down. We’ll see!!
I’m also hoping to get into the 5th chapter of The Three-Minute Walk-Through so that I can begin to put together a plan to use it before Christmas and give some feedback on how I find it working in the field. It may become the 5 minute walk-through differentiated for administrators like myself!!
K
