Energy Conservation Project

Office-Paper Use at Juneau-Douglas High School

For my “Energy Conservation Project” I delved into the world of paper use at the Juneau-Douglas High School (JDHS). Originally, I wanted to determine how much paper was recycled, what percentage of office paper was printed on both sides, and how much virgin paper was used. As the project unfolded, I had to trim it down. I decided to determine how much virgin paper was used, what the energy and environmental impacts were, and how shifting to recycled paper, 50% or 100% post-consumer, would reduce these impacts.

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Tools for the Mind

For the fall semester, the final article in Educational Leadership’s December 2005/January 2006 issue that we read is called “Tools for the Mind” by Mary Burns.

When computers were first introduced into the educational field, they were seen as a sort of “silver bullet,” the answer to educational woes of almost every stripe. Today’s reality shows that computers are not the answer to all our education-based questions, and that in order to better use computers for educational purposes, we need to significantly change our understanding of their uses, applications, and limitations.

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