On Friday my nine DU students turned in their case studies in Word format. I had intended to use Word’s insert comments feature to make my notes on their papers and return the graded papers without ever needing to print them out. Yesterday it hit me that my TabletPC was made jsut for this. This morning on the flights from Denver to SF to Portland I took out my laptop and proceeded to grade the papers with red pen, completely electronically. Now when I send the graded papers back to my students they’ll receive their papers complete with my handwritten comments, completely digitally, no dead trees required. Way cool!
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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On Friday my nine DU students turned in their case studies in Word format. I had intended to use Word’s insert comments feature to make my notes on their papers and return the graded papers without ever needing to print them out. Yesterday it hit me that my TabletPC was made jsut for this. This morning on the flights from Denver to SF to Portland I took out my laptop and proceeded to grade the papers with red pen, completely electronically. Now when I send the graded papers back to my students they’ll receive their papers complete with my handwritten comments, completely digitally, no dead trees required. Way cool!