PPS Instructional Technology

It’s that time again for……. The PPS TechnologyTimes!   The PPS Technology Department would love for you to check out our fall 2012 newsletter. Featured Articles include: One-to-One Computing: Google Chromebooks The TEC Experience: Success in Transition iTunes U: Delivering Lessons and Teaching from the Cloud Technology and Training Center is now the New Administration Building Meet the Tech Staff: Alyssa Medd Afterschool Tech Trainings Available It is one of our goals to help keep the PPS staff informed on what is going on in the technology department along with sharing wonderful and exciting ways technology is being used right here in PPS. If you have a project/event you would like featured in our next newsletter, or know someone who is doing a great job teaching with technology, we would love to hear about it! Email Jessica Winstanley ( jwinstanley@portageps.org ) or Paul Murray ( pmurray@portageps.org ) to share your ideas.

Tech Tip - PDF vs. DOCX When emailing or posting documents to websites: If you are trying to reach a broad audience as well as a mobile audience, then consider sharing your documents as PDF and not docx (MS Word). If you are trying to provide a project document that your students can open and edit, then consider docx or Google Docs. To being creating your own PDFs, please see this document . The Case for PDF: 1. PDF files (read by Adobe Reader) are able to be read on every operating system (windows, apple, etc.) 2. PDF files can be read on every device (computers, smart phones, tablets, etc.) 3. PDF files maintain your intended formatting (fonts, spacing, images, etc.) 4. PDF files cannot be edited by the viewer When sending out newsletters or other information that are meant to be consumed by the recipient, a PDF file is the perfect choice because you never have to worry about whether or not it can be read. The Case for DOCX (Word): 1.