How can I use PDF's in my distance learning classroom? – Week 30

CN Area Elementary Teaching Team:

Have a wonderful break!  Relax.  Spend time with family.  Stay safe.

As you serve families during this transition and help your students navigate online learning, here are a few more ideas to help with your/their journey.

Week 30 (March 30 – April 3)

Thursday Giggles:                            Did you hear about the guy who invented Lifesavers? 

       They say he made a mint!

Encouraging words:

How can my students edit a PDF?  Here are a few options that come to mind: 
ONE: Make the image the background in Google Slides. VIDEO LINK HERE

Image credit from video.

TWO: Create a Google Doc, drop a jpg snip in and let the kids use that Google Doc for the same assignment.
Don’t fill the document with text boxes.  Make it simple.  To see how this works, click on THIS VIDEO LINK for a tutorial.

THREE: Submit the PDF via Google Classroom if it was printed (or a packet).
1) Students can take pictures of the completed work and turn those images in via Google Classroom.
2) Children can create a PDF on a smart phone via QR Reader or Notes or other PDF apps. Then, this PDF can be attached to Google Classroom in the Google Classroom app.
3) Inside the Google Classroom app, there is a camera button. They can actually take those pictures from the assignment page.
4) If a family has access to a printer/scanner/fax machine, they can put a thumb drive into the printer and scan the pages to create a PDF.  That thumb drive can then move to the family computer.  The child can attach that multi-page PDF to the Google Classroom assignment. VIDEO HERE

FOUR: Edulastic may be another option.  You can drop that PDF in and then add some response boxes to that PDF.  Then, Edulastic will grade that resource for you (because you put the answers into the original part).

Fresno County Library. Did you notice we now have a link to the Fresno County Library in Clever?  Yes we do!  If your students have personal borrowing cards, there is a host of eBook materials they can download for free!

Together, we've got this,
Melissa Culver