{"id":986,"date":"2007-01-02T21:26:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T21:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/02\/bring-on-the-paperless-office\/"},"modified":"2007-01-02T21:26:03","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T21:26:03","slug":"bring-on-the-paperless-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/02\/bring-on-the-paperless-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring On the Paperless Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Classes start tomorrow, so I spent some time last week filing papers and cleaning off my desk. I&#8217;ve been here just long enough to fill up the file drawers in my desk, so I went through and pulled out a few old papers:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-038f5c27de2929485fcb19fe3061257d-old_papers.jpg\" alt=\"i-038f5c27de2929485fcb19fe3061257d-old_papers.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That stack is a collection of graded exams and lab reports from the 2001-2 academic year. I spent about half an hour feeding them into the shredder this afternoon (even though the students involved have all graduated, we can&#8217;t just throw graded work into the recycling bin).<\/p>\n<p>There was a weird sort of nostalgia involved in this. Shredding these papers reminded me of a bunch of students from my first year&#8211; a few I really liked, a few I had basically forgotten, a few I would&#8217;ve liked to feed into a paper shredder in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, though, it reminded me how wasteful this business can be. That&#8217;s an awful lot of paper, and it&#8217;s only a fraction of what was generated during that year&#8211; the stuff that didn&#8217;t have names and grades on it got tossed years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I eagerly await the day when I can beam assignments directly into our students&#8217; brains. Maybe one of our oversupply of neuroscience bloggers can get to work on that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classes start tomorrow, so I spent some time last week filing papers and cleaning off my desk. I&#8217;ve been here just long enough to fill up the file drawers in my desk, so I went through and pulled out a few old papers: That stack is a collection of graded exams and lab reports from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/02\/bring-on-the-paperless-office\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bring On the Paperless Office<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}