Monday, October 27, 2008

Testing L10 template

I'm trying to test a new way for students to turn in their Library 10 exercises without turning in the entire workbook. I want them to see my preferred template and possibly link from the blog.
Let's see the options:
1. Make a template in Google docs that they can copy and paste into a word doc at home.
Test how it "travels" to Word on my computer. ** Tested...travels just fine from google to word.
2. Have them edit within a new Google docs account set up just for them. Google docs is "sharable" so maybe they can work directly in Google docs and then print their work. Downside: unless they delete their work when they are done, others can use their answers.
3. Give them the option of either: setting up their own Google docs, do their own work, print and turn in the packet, or do the same in Word.
4. Show them the PDF link from the library homepage, have them print it, fill them out by hand, turn in the packet. Downside, still doesn't solve the readability problem.
5. Hope that the techs can implement read/writable PDFs sooner rather than later. **update: cannot use a read/write PDF unless the student has the newest Adobe PDF application installed on the computer they are working from.