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When you upload files to Google Docs, you'll notice a new option that tells Google to convert the text from PDF and image files to Google Docs documents.

How can you organize the sheer number of files produced over the course of a season?  How can you integrate backfiles and updates to already existing files through the course of the year?

Alex Gulakov has designed a new paperless debate system with accompanying software.

It includes virtual tubs, a new flowing system and an integrated paperless system. Find and download Debate Synergy 1.0. http://georgetowndebateseminar.wikispaces.com/synergy

I've been talking to a few people about how to optimize my card cutting and how to become as efficient as possible.  A number of them have pushed me in the direction of buying a mouse with programmable buttons. 

Today I decided to do this and find it to be very much the answer to my prayers.  I haven't used it extensively yet, however, I've played around with it enough to recommend it as a tool in our transition to paperless.

From JP Lacy:

Following Whitman & Denver's lead, a bunch of squads are eliminating
paper this year.

More will do it soon after. Even more High School students are working
on doing the same.

We'll learn a lot this year about how to improve the process.

I figured it would be nice to assemble knowledge in one place.

So, I started a wiki. http://paperlessdebate.wikispaces.com/

Its got everything I've found about paperless debate so far.

FROM THE WIKI:

Against the backdrop of the debate community's increasing entanglement with digital technology through paperless debate, I would like to share a recent experience/experiment at the Arizona Debate Institute as food for thought and play.