Good, responsible teachers are always on the lookout for innovative, fun ways to motivate their students to learn. Students’ active participation in class activities, rather than passive reception of teachers’ lectures, proved to be a much more effective teaching method.
Fortunately, today we have a real treasure on Internet when it comes to teaching strategies, ideas and tools. As well as many great and dedicated teachers! A lot of these web teaching tools are free, which makes it easier for teachers to introduce technology into their teaching curriculum.
Free Online PDF Converter is an example of one such free ed-tech tool that can be easily integrated into classroom and computer lab activities. Most importantly, the tool is simple to use because its application consists of three easy steps and only requires Internet connection.
We will now suggest three ways to take advantage of the free online PDF converter, but you can go ahead and find many more.
1. Turn Your Book Report into PDF eBook
Teachers today have similar problems to teachers in the past: kids often don’t like reading, and they are especially unhappy about writing book reports. But, if you show them how to turn their writing into eBooks, they may find the assignment less burdensome and actually warm up to the idea of becoming eBook writers.
Assign a book review to be written or created in document processor like Microsoft Word or Open Document. Show them how to create an eBook in PDF format from their book report.
The process is very simple and straightforward (they will probably love to play with the tool):
1) Go to this address: http://www.pdfconverter.com/convert-to-pdf-online-free/
2) Upload your Word or any other format book report.
3) Type in your email address.
4) Click Start! and wait a few seconds to receive new mail; the email will contain a link you need to click in order to download your polished PDF book report.
2. Make PDF SlideShows from PowerPoint Presentations
Similarly to the previous project, you can work with your students to create fun PDF Slideshows from PowerPoint presentations. You can help them create a PPT using text, images, different-colored background and then go through the same 4-step process as in the previous tutorial.
The Free Online PDF Converter works equally well with text and images, so your PPT document featuring different visual features will flow as smoothly in its PDF version as well.
Once they get their stylish PDF presentation, you can show them how to useSlideShare or its alternatives to take their slideshow online and proudly share them with the world!
3. Create and Share Documents That Can be Viewed on Any Device
It is important to explain to your students why they should practice using PDF files when creating shareable documents. Sometimes other formats lose their formatting when viewed on different computers – for example, the document can have letters missing, pagination lost, headlines in wrong places and passages structured differently.
On the other hand, PDF is known for its universal appearance which is exactly the same on all devices, and that is why it is the safest format to share with others – especially if your grade depends on it!
With school children you can use the Free Online PDF Converter to:
1) Practice printing PDFs from many different formats.
2) Check how the PDFs look on different platforms and compare it to how Word, Excel or some other formats look on different platforms.
3) Practice sharing (sending and receiving) PDF files.
4) Write down the differences between a PDF file and its original format.
Originally posted by Anna Stanley on Thursday, February 28, 2013 Under: Classroom Tech Tools
Fortunately, today we have a real treasure on Internet when it comes to teaching strategies, ideas and tools. As well as many great and dedicated teachers! A lot of these web teaching tools are free, which makes it easier for teachers to introduce technology into their teaching curriculum.
Free Online PDF Converter is an example of one such free ed-tech tool that can be easily integrated into classroom and computer lab activities. Most importantly, the tool is simple to use because its application consists of three easy steps and only requires Internet connection.
We will now suggest three ways to take advantage of the free online PDF converter, but you can go ahead and find many more.
1. Turn Your Book Report into PDF eBook
Teachers today have similar problems to teachers in the past: kids often don’t like reading, and they are especially unhappy about writing book reports. But, if you show them how to turn their writing into eBooks, they may find the assignment less burdensome and actually warm up to the idea of becoming eBook writers.
Assign a book review to be written or created in document processor like Microsoft Word or Open Document. Show them how to create an eBook in PDF format from their book report.
The process is very simple and straightforward (they will probably love to play with the tool):
1) Go to this address: http://www.pdfconverter.com/convert-to-pdf-online-free/
2) Upload your Word or any other format book report.
3) Type in your email address.
4) Click Start! and wait a few seconds to receive new mail; the email will contain a link you need to click in order to download your polished PDF book report.
2. Make PDF SlideShows from PowerPoint Presentations
Similarly to the previous project, you can work with your students to create fun PDF Slideshows from PowerPoint presentations. You can help them create a PPT using text, images, different-colored background and then go through the same 4-step process as in the previous tutorial.
The Free Online PDF Converter works equally well with text and images, so your PPT document featuring different visual features will flow as smoothly in its PDF version as well.
Once they get their stylish PDF presentation, you can show them how to useSlideShare or its alternatives to take their slideshow online and proudly share them with the world!
3. Create and Share Documents That Can be Viewed on Any Device
It is important to explain to your students why they should practice using PDF files when creating shareable documents. Sometimes other formats lose their formatting when viewed on different computers – for example, the document can have letters missing, pagination lost, headlines in wrong places and passages structured differently.
On the other hand, PDF is known for its universal appearance which is exactly the same on all devices, and that is why it is the safest format to share with others – especially if your grade depends on it!
With school children you can use the Free Online PDF Converter to:
1) Practice printing PDFs from many different formats.
2) Check how the PDFs look on different platforms and compare it to how Word, Excel or some other formats look on different platforms.
3) Practice sharing (sending and receiving) PDF files.
4) Write down the differences between a PDF file and its original format.
Originally posted by Anna Stanley on Thursday, February 28, 2013 Under: Classroom Tech Tools
