How to Use Adobe Acrobat in Education
According to the Adobe Acrobat Website, "Adobe Acrobat 9 software helps you communicate the way you've always wanted to using PDF (Portable Document Format), the standard for electronic document exchange." Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded for free. You have to either buy Adobe Acrobat or get it bundled with other software. Adobe Acrobat is flexible and can be used in a number of ways in the classroom. Whether students are in the K-12 or college classrooms, Adobe Acrobat has something to offer.
Things You'll Need
- Computer(s)
- Adobe Acrobat 9 software
- Adobe Acrobat Reader software
- Scanner
- Web microphone
- Web camera or digital video camera
Instructions
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Student Assessment
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Adopt Adobe Acrobat in the K-12 classroom to authentically assess student work. Employ the PDF feature to share a portfolio across grade levels. Scan student artwork into the document. Record a student reading or music ensembles into the multimedia format. Add other multimedia such as original student movies.
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Develop student professional portfolios in the college classroom. Include PDF and multimedia files. Showcase knowledge and skills obtained during students' undergraduate years. Aim the portfolio at a specific career. Include letters of recommendation. Also, incorporate performance rubrics from representative faculty.
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Design dissertations by graduate students. When appropriate, students photograph raw data and include them in the document. Include graphs and tables in another section. Format footnotes on the bottom of each page. The PDF files make it easy to share the document among the faculty on the dissertation committee. Also, pages in PDF make it easy to print a hard copy for the library.
Teaching
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Use Adobe Acrobat to integrate curriculum in the K-12 classroom. Go to http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/adsc/. Download lesson plans and supporting guides for examples on how to integrate the curriculum. Also view final sample projects and media assets. Find sample plans for math and science, language arts, history/social studies and the visual and performing arts. These plans span the K-12 curriculum.
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Integrate subject curriculum using Adobe Acrobat in the college classroom. Use computer-assisted learning to accomplish this task. Save pages in PDF so that students using Windows, Macintosh or Unix operating systems can view the same documents. Get around HTML and its restrictions using the PDF files. Keep materials for repeat semesters, and the technology will remain current.
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Teach skills needed for career preparation in the 21st century in the K-12 and college classrooms. Students manipulate multimedia, navigate though pages and search. These are just a few of the skills that can be mastered.
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