Post #10 • Tiny PDF • Socrative

After a 2 week break we're back with more good technology stuff.  During the break,  I was very impressed with a lot of classroom activity from Corona to Cloudcroft and schools in-between.  I see one of the blog apps "newsela" being used in multiple grade levels.  My respect to those of you that have adopted that technology and are using it.

I've had a few inquiries about using iPads to cut down on the paper materials that are being generated and wanting to know if I knew of an App or a way to to take a scanned image that is a PDF file and distribute that to students, then allow them to interact with the file.  Mark it up, type on it, draw on it, then allow students to turn around and share that back to the teacher.

App of the Week:
This week is a FREE --  APP  called :   TinyPDF
Connects to google drive (yay!)
Connects to Dropbox (yay!)

1. Take any document you'd like to share with your students and scan it to a pdf file.
2. Up-load that file to a google drive account - or drop box / Google Drive is your easiest option.
3. Share that file with your students through Google Drive or your Google Classroom and give your students the ability to edit that document.
4. Associate TinyPDF to the google drive account you shared the document with.
5. Give students instructions to markup and type on the document as you want.
6. There is a signature option that you can have your students apply so they can sign their work.

If you'd like more information on how to get started implementing please let me know.  You can reply by commenting on the blog or send me an email.

Web resource of the week:  http://socrative.com/
Socrative is another FREE - teacher web resource -- One of those, ???HUH,, you're not using this! Its a technological way of assessing your students that will have them asking you for more.
Quick.. go sign up now! get your classes started.
Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class’ current level of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of learners.