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February 20, 2006 10:57 PM
Document Collaboration with Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional
Presented by
Ali Hanyalolglu
ali@adobe.com
Acrobat 7.0 Pro can be used for student reports, school board communications, lesson plans, SPED plans, admin forms, parent communications, teacher productivity, and archiving documents. All of those uses might be collaborative processes.
The challenge: how does one make the process of creating and modifying documents into a collaborative one? There are many problems like different operating systems, use of different fonts, how to share to the document (e-mail? Paper copies?) Some software packages like Office have review tools, but they can be rather limited and inconsistent over different platforms.
Adobe Acrobat is a possible answer to this problem. Benefits of Acrobat: reliable, easy way to share files, all review is totally electronic, built-in security. The best workflow for a review cycle is fluid and circular and this is exactly the process allowed by Acrobat.
Ali gave a demonstration of how Acrobat can be used for a lesson plan that needs to be shared. Click the send for review button in Acrobat and choose to send via e-mail or upload to central location (can be opened in a web browser.) Acrobat uses a wizard to prepare file for review and to notify recipients and specify who will receive the comments from those recipients.
Acrobat review tools mimic those of the paper world: sticky notes, spell check, rubber stamps, highlighting, underline, and strike-through, to name a few.
Acrobat has the ability to attach files to reviewed documents, add audio comments, to track comments and to collect all comments into a single file.
For more information visit:
www.adobe.com/education/k12
or view Ali?s blog at
blogs.adobe.com (Look for Acrobat in education)
Note: You need Reader 7 to make use of the review tools.
Posted by garymcfarlane on February 20, 2006 at 10:57 PM in Other Learnings | Comments (0)
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