Comments on: Document Scanning with Ricoh Copiers http://tom.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/08/27/document-scanning-with-ricoh-copiers/ TOM is not for introducing new, cutting-edge technology, but rather to highlight helpful, proven technologies. Mon, 8 Sep 2008 08:17:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: mteter http://tom.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/08/27/document-scanning-with-ricoh-copiers/#comment-71 mteter Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:57:42 +0000 http://tom.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/08/27/document-scanning-with-ricoh-copiers/#comment-71 I use the Ricoh scanner all the time. It saves paper. When I need to give students hand-outs I simply scan them and put them on BlackBoard ahead of classes. I no longer have carry copies and be left out with a number of them when some students are absent. Students also have access to hand-outs when they lose them. I also scan all student papers with my comments. Since I require drafts in class, it is important for me to see whether, or to what extent, students have followed my feedback on their written work. I no longer have to ask them to submit their drafts with their final papers. I also place these scanned drafts on BlackBoard in the grade book section, so students can find them, if they lose them, or if, during the break, they are away. I use the scanner also for my own research. I can scan an articles or chapters from books I need, and save them on my computer, print them out as I need them, forward them to colleagues if they ask for them, etc. This is one of the best technology additions in recent years! I use the Ricoh scanner all the time. It saves paper. When I need to give students hand-outs I simply scan them and put them on BlackBoard ahead of classes. I no longer have carry copies and be left out with a number of them when some students are absent. Students also have access to hand-outs when they lose them.

I also scan all student papers with my comments. Since I require drafts in class, it is important for me to see whether, or to what extent, students have followed my feedback on their written work. I no longer have to ask them to submit their drafts with their final papers. I also place these scanned drafts on BlackBoard in the grade book section, so students can find them, if they lose them, or if, during the break, they are away.

I use the scanner also for my own research. I can scan an articles or chapters from books I need, and save them on my computer, print them out as I need them, forward them to colleagues if they ask for them, etc.

This is one of the best technology additions in recent years!

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