Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching (4 th Edition) M. D. Roblyer University of Maryland University College Adobe Acrobat Tutorial for Chapter 15 TIE-into Practice Exercises Created by William R. Wiencke Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Columbus, Ohio
A Sample Adobe Acrobat Tutorial The Technology Integration Example (Helping Students with Disabilities Blend In) at the beginning of Chapter 15 showed how teachers might have an interdisciplinary unit combining music, art, and technology. To do the survey activity described in this lesson, the teacher has to create an online survey document using Adobe Acrobat software. Using the tutorial below, create a sample survey in Adobe Acrobat like the example shown here. Required System Settings 1. This tutorial assumes that you have installed Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional on your computer, including all additional fonts and clip art. If you do not have the fonts and clip art used in this tutorial, you can substitute others that you have on your system.
3.0 Radio Buttons 4.0 List Box 7.0 Submit Button Follow the steps below to create the survey shown above. 1. Create the basic survey layout. Microsoft PowerPoint was used for this illustration, but any program that allows you to manipulate text and graphics will do.
2. Create an Acrobat document from the PowerPoint design 2.1 Click Convert to Adobe PDF button on toolbar 2.2 Enter survey for the file name 2.3 Click Save 2.4 Acrobat will convert the PowerPoint file into a PDF document and automatically open it in Acrobat
3. Create Radio Buttons 3.1 Click Tools > Advanced Editing > Show Forms Toolbar 3.2 Click the Radio Button Tool 3.3 Click and Drag the area for the button for the first Gender choice
3.4 Enter Gender for the name of the button under the General tab of Radio Button Properties window. 3.5 Enter Male for the Export Value under the Options tab. 3.6 Click Close 3.7 Click and Drag the area for the button for the second Gender choice 3.8 Enter Gender for the name of the second button. This will limit the gender choice to one selection
3.9 Enter Female for the Export Value for the second gender choice 3.10 Click Close 3.11 Select the Hand Tool to test the buttons Note: you should only be able to pick one, not both of the buttons. If not, check to be sure that you named both buttons Gender
4. Creating a list box entry form. 4.1 Click the List Box Tool from the Forms Toolbar 4.2 Click and drag the area for the List Box 4.3 Enter Grade for Name under the General Tab of the List Box Property window 4.4 Enter 6 for the Item and 6 for the Export Value under the Options tab 4.5 Click Add
4.6 Continue adding items for 7 and 8, clicking the Add button each time 4.7 Select a Font Size of 18 under the Appearance tab 4.8 Click Close 4.9 Adjust the size and location of the List Box as necessary
5. Create a second List Box for Age 5.1 Click the List Box Tool 5.2 Click and drag the area for the List Box 5.3 Name the Box Age 5.4 Add Item and Export Values as shown
5.5 Set the Font size to 14 5.6 Click Close 5.7 Adjust the size and location of the List Box as necessary 6. Additional Radio Buttons 6.1 Create Radio Buttons following the steps in 3.0 above. Name each button Live and use Export Values of House and Apartment
6.2 Create Radio Buttons following the steps in 3.0 above. Name each button Sport and use the name of each of the sports shown for the Export Values 7. Create a submit button 7.1 Click the Button Tool 7.2 Click and Drag the button so that is completely covers Thank You
7.3 Name the button Submit 7.4 Select No Color for both the Border Color and Fill Color under the Appearance tab 7.5 Choose Mouse Down for the Select Trigger under the Actions tab
7.6 Choose Execute a menu item for Select Action under the Actions tab 7.7 Click Add 7.8 Click File > Form Data > Export Data from Form
7.9 Click OK 7.10 Click Close 8. Collecting Data 8.1 Have students complete the survey clicking the Thank You button when done
8.2 Name the file for the student (use numbers if you want the responses anonymous) 8.4 Click Save 8.3 Choose XML Files for type Note: Continue collecting data, saving each completed form as shown above 8.5 When all the data is collected click Advanced > Forms > Create Spreadsheet From Data Files
8.6 Click Add Files 8.7 Click the first data file 8.8 Click Select 8.9 Continue adding files until all are selected 8.10 Click Export
8.11 Enter a file name 8.12 Click Save 8.13 Click View File Now 8.14 Your spreadsheet program should open with the date imported