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PDF Escape For Fillable PDFs

PDF Escape is a fantastic technology tool to create pdf documents into editable documents.

Have a document that you want students to fill in? 

• Create document in Google or Word
• Convert it to a PDF
• Create an account in PDF Escape
• Upload the document
• Add editable text boxes directly in the areas to be filled in
• Save document
• Download the document
• Send as attachment in an email or upload to Google Site

Your document will look like this while creating it.

Perfect for:

• Articles summaries
• Book reports
• Video reflection
• No need to recreate documents if already a pdf, just make the pdf editable.

Thanks to Mr. Rusk for inquiring about this which allowed for me to find a new technology tool.

Impact on Students:

• Critical Thinking: Reflection questions can be posed to students who must thoughtfully answer the questions.  

Lunch N' Learn Promotion Using Canva

After reading another blog post on Free Tech 4 Teachers, I learned about Canva.  I decided to utilize Canva as my promotional medium for tomorrow's Lunch N' Learn topic on the new iMovie on iOS 7.

FINAL CANVA PRODUCT

Positives:

• Amazing amount of advanced looking clip art which are customizable
• Drag and Drop
• Colorful
• 10 Templates
• Instant updates to published product
• Live final product sharable in multiple forms
• Live Link
• Images (jpg)
• PDF

Negatives:

• Students may find an image and it may not be free (all premium features $1 a piece)
• No Embed Code
• Only available on desktop/chromebook (no mobile device, yet)

Learn What Canva Can Do: Video Link

Math Teachers Making Word Documents Available on Web

While the iPaddiction blog has mostly been about the use of iPads (and will continue to be as we purchase more for the district), it will also be enhanced to include ANY form of technology used in the classroom by teachers in our great district.

Today, after a CCSS math department meeting, a teacher wanted to know how to make Word document files into PDF files and ultimately uploaded to Google Drive.  This will allow for the document to be placed on a blog.  The main reason for this is that most math teachers have used Microsoft Equation Editor which doesn't play nicely when uploaded to Google Drive.

So here are the steps to convert a Microsoft Word Document to pdf.

• Visit CutePDF Writer Website for Free Download  
• Once downloaded and installed the option for changing a Word Document to a PDF will be in the File>Print options of the Microsoft Word document.

• Choose this option, and save it to your desired folder or location.
• Upload the PDF to Google Drive

A somewhat lengthy process, but one that allows for a Word document filled with Equation Editor math problems to be shared with students on a blog or website.

By the way, the entire time I was teaching the teacher how to do this I remembered my philosophy.  Having a slogan, theme, and/or philosophy makes the job of teaching so much easier!

Single Paper To PDF To Google Doc Reduces Paper

As a long time math teacher with first year iPad experience, I find myself still using some drill and practice for certain math concepts.  I have been able to use some of the old math drill and practice problems by photocopying them on our copier.  Instead of paper, I choose email option and email the pdf to myself.  I then download the pdf attachment and upload it to Google Docs.

This provides the option for me to create a publishing URL and post it to our blog.

See the process...