Do You Have a Paperless Classroom?

Over at ProfHacker, Mark Sample offers some suggestions for limiting the amount of paper used in the classroom.  I have summarized them below:

•  Distribute syllabi and assignments electronically
•  Stop printing attendance sheets.  Call them up on your laptop, iPad, or phone.
• Keep your lecture notes on your iPad.
• Don’t ask students to hand in hard copies of their work.
• Use e-journals and e-reserves for student reading assignments.

And now for the drawbacks of going paperless:

• Technology can fail
• Students may not bring their laptops to class with them to discuss a document. 

So what do you think?  Is going paperless worth it?  Frankly, I am nowhere close to going paperless in my classes.  Why?

•  I do not have an iPad nor am I comfortable with using one to lecture from
• I prefer grading hard copies of papers and reading hard copies of articles
• I want my students to have hard copies of primary sources or secondary articles in front of them so that they can underline, make marginal notations, etc…
• I still don’t trust technology

How about you?

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