[Year 12 IT Apps] itapps Digest, Vol 77, Issue 21

[Mark KELLY]

Indeed, Robert. PDF is really only a container.

On 26 July 2011 09:29, Robert Koren <robert.koren at overnewton.vic.edu.au>wrote:

> Lurker here,
>
> I believe that you need to use authoring software and authoring an
> electronic document is not the same as compiling it.
>
> Mark I think you are on the right track with Dreamweaver and Powerpoint
> specifically.  I also think that if Notepad or word is used to author
> HTML/PSP etc it should be fine as the student is authoring a document that
> can include text, graphics, sound or movies.  I have had a general rule of
> thumb that three out of the four listed (text, graphics, sound, movie) need
> to be included in final presentation and that the software used to author it
> should be able to handle that or allow you to tag that appropriately.  This
> is my specific definition to push the kids past a text based approach and is
> my adaptation of the definition. If the document is only text based then
> there is the scope of multimedia has not been challenged.
>
> To me PDF is merely a way of putting it all together so it can be seen by
> many computers and is not authoring it specifically.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Robert Koren
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