‘Tools’ Archives
Visual Graphing Tools
Last week a member of the NMC listserve asked members of the list to recommend graphing software that goes beyond simple plots and enables "interesting", media based plots. Several members made recommendations and provided links. Their interactions sent me off exploring "shiny objects". The following is a list of the some of [...]
Accessing and Creating Accessible PDF files
The Portable Document Format (PDF) was created to allow designers to share content with formatting intact. Unfortunately, at the beginning, the features that allowed a PDF to look a certain way, also tended to prevent users from accessing the content with Assistive Technology. To combat this problem, Adobe worked to improve the accessibility of [...]
Portfolios for Teaching, Learning, and Presentation – Part 9
Portfolio Assessment I recommend that the three rubrics provided at the end of this section be modified to address the method that you will be employing to assess professional portfolios. Each of the rubrics is divided into four categories and five performance areas. Categories Novice - Lacks required components; is weak in [...]
Portfolios for Teaching, Learning, and Presentation – Part 8
Providing Electronic Comments & Attachments to PDFs This video shows you how to gather feedback from virtually anyone by enabling the commenting tools in the free Adobe Reader using Acrobat 9 Pro and Acrobat 9 Pro Extended. You may want to create PDF documents and/or portfolios that allow viewers to comment and respond to its [...]
Portfolios for Teaching, Learning, and Presentation – Part 7
Personalizing the Portfolio The PDF Portfolio features in Acrobat make it easy to create an engaging presentation package. When you first open the PDF Portfolio tool, an edit pane of the right side of the work area will be displayed. The first thing that you will want to do when creating a new portfolio is choose a layout. To choose a [...]
