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Are you editing your student's papers?
Authored by: rhowell on Feb 22, '06 08:13:31AM

Are you editing your student's papers? If not, why are you insisting they submit them in a proprietary format that requires an editor to read them? When I hand out a memo at a meeting, I don't ask that attendees use a typewriter to read it :-)

Word is for editing. PDF is for reading/annotating.

Office 2004 for students/teachers: $149.00
Creating/reading/annotating PDF documents: FREE



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Are you editing your student's papers?
Authored by: tomsinclair on Feb 22, '06 08:40:13AM

Agreed on the PDF requirement. I got tired of dealing with .doc, .wps, .rtf formats so I only accept PDF files. For Windows, I've found CutePDF (http://www.cutepdf.com) to be simple to install and use.

The annotation tools in Preview then make the assignments a snap to grade and return via e-mail.



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Are you editing your student's papers?
Authored by: umijin on Feb 23, '06 09:18:33AM

I've thought about using the annotation tools in Preview, but found them a bit limiting when I tried to use them for editing a late draft of a colleague's paper.

But I might try this in the future, as it saves paper.



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Are you editing your student's papers?
Authored by: umijin on Feb 23, '06 09:15:27AM

You don't get it.

They don't use Macs - only Windows and they are barely computer literate. They can't save to pdf format unless they have something like Acrobat (which they won't buy) or other Adobe product or some pdf file making app. Most of them don't have $145 to buy MS Office, and wouldn't even know if it was installed on their systems. Many of them have free versions of MS Works or buy it or WordPerfect for very cheap. Those that have access to MS Office usually have it at work or in our school's computer lab. But even they don't know how to use Word effectively.

I agree wholeheartedly that pdf files are the way to go. And if I was at a traditional 4 year college - I would. But in this case, it just isn't practical.



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