PDF Splicer

I was having trouble with random page breaks forming in my documents, and if I deleted them the formatting of my document would get messed up. I also had trouble making my magazine one document, as I made a new document for every page. To make the documents into one, I found PDF Splicer. PDF Splicer is an app for iPad that allows you to delete seperate pages, move, and rearrange documents that have been saved as a PDF. This allowed me to make my seperate documents into 1 and it allowed me to take out the unwanted page breaks in my planner. The only downfall is that they insert a 1 page ad at the beginning of your document. However, if you are printing it shouldn't be a problem, and if you don't want the ads at all, you can pay a fairly low price to get them off.

Update on Ed Tech Learning

So I haven't posted in a while, since we have had so many breaks in school, but here are things I have learned since the last time I posted.

November 5-8: I worked on my planner, which is part of the word processing challenge artifacts. I found this to be incredibly tedious and time consuming. Though it wasn't very hard, I did a weekly planner for the entire year (November - November). In the process I had to copy and paste my planner on 52 seperate pages, and change the dates to go in order. I also had to change the week heading. This took me about 4 hours total. Next time, I think I will go with a monthly planner. :)

November 9-14: I worked on my report on the pages app of my iPad! I found the report fun to do by adding many pictures, charts and small explanations throughout. Pages has many cool picture formatting options which I enjoyed playing with.

In class, we all made forms so we can evaluate each others blogs. Here I found that you cannot make a hyperlink in forms, and that its difficult to organize an evaluation for so many artifacts. However, there are at least two ways :)

At home I have been working on finishing evaluations.

Making a Magazine with Pages!

I have learned two things since last class.... Don't leave half of you magazine to be done the night before class, and that making a magazine on the Pages app for iPad is super cool. I learned a bunch of new pages that I never even knew about. The most I had ever used the app for was typing an essay. Now I have learned how to make pictures transparent and set backgrounds on documents. I also learned how to set page numbers and how to insert textboxes that I can move around as I need. I don't think my magazine could look as cool as it does without the Pages app. :)

Singularity Project!

So, I taught my sister how to start a blog! Since she didn't know anything about blogs to start with it was really easy to double her knowledge. I asked her to put a post on her blog on what she has learned. She has a picture and two posts and a gadget up. I also helped her with privacy settings. Here is a link to her cat blog. www.calleyscatblog.blogspot.com