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[Cornfed]

Since I don't use the textbook, I've been relying of worksheets. I'm bored with all the copying involved, and the photocopiers and always breaking down. What alternatives are there?

[cruisemonkey]

Do what I do - get the school's photocopy ajoshie to do it for you.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

White boards and marker pens.

[gazz]

Here are a few websites that might help you out. You will however have to plan lessons around them!

Work sheets require a lot less prep, but lessons with these sort/other ideas stimulate the pupils a lot more (and are far more enjoyable for you to teach!)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/series/24hoursinpictures

http://bigeyeinthesky.com/ (so many of these from all over the world!)

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default.mspx - photo story 3

http://www.sandfields.co.uk/games/ - loads of ideas on here

http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Support/Downloads/SBS/Windows/SBSv97Win.htm - for windows

http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Support/SBS/SBSv95Mac.htm - for Mac

The two links above are for free software that you can use on the large TV�s that (I assume you have in your classroom.)

This software has so many cool features; it�s worth a download just to have a play with. You can easily remove it if you don�t like it.

[sojourner1]

Request that a computer with touch screen be installed into each students desk. Wishful thinking on my part... Of course, you'd need special expensive software to run it.

In college, we did have computers in each desk in many classes. No there wasn't a bunch of clusterfuck wires laying in the floors as it was all professionally installed under the floor and conduited into the desks. Notice I said in instead of on, because the desk would be clear with a built in screen and other times it was a standard office desktop or a bolted down laptop. This made the professors job more automated. It even did all the handouts and grading for him and her while the professor would monitor your machines activity. Sometimes it also did the lecturing with each of us using headphones while the professor was simply a facilitator who pressed the on/off switch on things through the main control unit in the teachers desk.

Other times, a course was done at home or at a Starbucks on your own using a Wifi enabled laptop with an automated broadcasted class running at scheduled times. There was open discussion and a professor to pause the program when discussions erupted. I got an idea, we could just tell students to sit in a PC bang all day long while we just chill in a quiet classroom and press buttons.

One good thing about good old fashioned paper is it eats classroom time to handout and return the papers!!! So sorry for all the Earth atmosphere supporting rainforest being destroyed each day.

[Easter Clark]

The best alternative in my experience is to use PowerPoint and have the students bring notebooks.

[gazz]

The one tv at the front of the room will do! Two teams team one vs team two ect ect.

It does take a BIT of imagination to do this!

[Easter Clark]

Those panoramas are awesome!