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Using Adobe Acrobat to Create Interactive Documents By Charlie Morse
Adobe Acrobat is an inexpensive software tool that we have found useful for creating interactive worksheets, multimedia presentations, and assessment instruments in our computer lab at DJ Montague Elementary School. Relying on the universally available free Reader software and Portable Document Format (PDF), users can manipulate existing documents (irregardless of authoring software) to quickly create interactive documents that relate to classroom lessons.
In this demonstration I include just a handful of the documents the staff and I have created in our school. We have found Acrobat to be particularly useful in creating on-the-fly interactive worksheets for supporting classroom lessons.
Homonyms using Adobe Acrobat
On this 3rd grade Homonyms worksheet, we added a “prize” that slowly appears as each wrong word is discovered. When all the wrong words are found in each paragraph, the whole picture is shown.
For this activity, just the fact the children recognize the wrong word is all that matters. Although they must type the correct word in the box that appears, the “prize” doesn’t depend on whether the correct word is used.
The text and pictures were first created in Microsoft Word. It was then brought to Adobe Acrobat where the buttons and actions were added.
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An easy lesson on creating an interactive Adobe Acrobat worksheet. You’ll need Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat 6.0 (not Acrobat Reader). Please download both files.
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