Going "paperless" is not as difficult as you might think. It becomes a whole lot more simple when you realize that anything you can print, you can save as a pdf and everything that is a pdf can be annotated in Preview. Going paperless becomes even more doable if your students have access to their textbook in a .pdf format. If you are a math teacher who assigns page 252, examples 1-18, students can "print to pdf" that page of their math text, open the page in Preview. Students then use the annotation tools in Preview to enter their answers and then save the document. They can then email their teacher with the completed document as an attachment By emailing the document as an attachment, you are also making a backup copy of the document. When you think of all the teacher-made or online documents that students can complete without ever having to use a single sheet of paper or printer ink, it blows the mind.
(Note: In order to do full text annotations, you need to be using an updated version of Preview that comes with Snow Leopard. The new MLTI image for 2010-11 has this updated version. In current MLTI image, students can add annotated notes that appear on left side bar.)
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