Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: No More Copiers!!! Change Middle School has just went through it's 3rd change since the start of the school year. This particular change involved administration and resulted with a new principal. Week 1 the new principal announced that her vision is to be a No Copy School and plans to do away with all copiers and printers. A big focus of ELA is annotating or "touching" the text. How will my students be able to touch the text if I can't print/copy the text? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I have seen some teachers use something called Smart Pal (promotes active learning) which allows students to place a piece of paper inside a plastic covering. Students can use this covering to write all over using dry erase markers. While it may be difficult for many pages at a time, if students are required to highlight or note smaller reading passages this may be a great alternative! They could fit anything inside of it, including their novels or anything else. Another method would be using google in the classroom (google forms, google sheets, google docs) where students can write, edit, and make comments on text written in these types of documents.