Tags: Paperless Debate

One of the most significant problems we considered when Georgia went paperless was how to organize the sheer number of files produced over the course of a season.  How would we integrate backfiles and updates to already existing files through the course of the year?  It was hard enough to make sure everyone had the most recent Politics or Economy files when we could physically hand them a copy, and we thought it would be even harder…

While considering the paperless transition during the spring of this year, many of our debaters expressed reservations about abandoning the traditional means of debate. As many of you have probably also considered, they worried that debating without paper would be more difficult, at least initially. The stated concerns were many: assembling speeches would be slower, it is more difficult to pick and choose cards to read from an individual block,…

New Paperless Initiative Logo Photo Credit: Design by Nick Kinney At the beginning of last summer, the Georgia Debate Union coaching staff made the decision to transition from traditional paper evidence to paperless debate.  There are a variety of reasons to make this change, and it requires enough of a commitment that having clear reasons is important to keep the project on track.  The purpose of this post is to outline our reasons…

1. Select some text 2. Click the Down Arrow on the Highlighting Box (its in the Formatting Toolbar – which should be open). Select whichever color you’d like. I recommend Bright Green or Gray for Papered teams (they print the best) and Yellow for Paperless teams (easiest to read from the computer). 3. It should have highlighted the text you previously selected. Press Control+Z to reverse this. The Highlight Button should still be colored with…

Going paperless changes a lot more about debate than just what materials you bring to the tournament. Almost every facet of the activity—from argument conceptualization to evidence production to in-round execution—will eventually be revamped to harness the advantages and minimize the limitations of purely electronic debating. This post will focus on one of the most important, but often overlooked, building-blocks of debate success: file…