So, I have played with Pages a little. I used one of their templates to create a poster/flier for the technology Show "N" Tell even though I made a different one with publisher on my computer (PC). I thought it would be fun to try it out on Pages and see what options are available for student use. (And there are a lot!) I love how things look on the iPad, but not sure how it will look printed or on other devices. I can see the benefits of creating presentations on the iPads and then projecting (from the ipad) it for the world to see...but transferring it to other programs really isn't an option. I suppose that the videos could be embedded in web pages (?) and viewed.
Anyway, I went further to use iWork to share the document with Gail and Ann. That was easy. Originally I thought that it would be similar to Google Docs when it came to collaboration, but it appears that one can only make comments on the side...not actually edit the document--at least from a PC. I sent this same document to myself as a Word file and found that although I can edit it...a lot of the alignment is off when dealing with graphics. I was able to fix the writing in the star by deleting the text (while in word format) and inserting a text box. From there I wrote the year, turned it white, no background or outline fills, and enlarged it to work. Another thing I noticed is that the text in the box at the bottom isn't turned. I created a text box within the shape and then grouped the objects. Once grouped they wouldn't rotate. Otherwise it was fine. I also liked the star on the left larger and was able to add an image from google here without any problem. Now to try emailing it.
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