Do you feel as though you are buried under paperwork? If so, you can use your iPad and GoodReader to simplify your life and digitize your classroom. In this session, we will explain how to use this low-cost app to streamline the paperwork you are faced with every day. Whether it's conference notes, assessments, sign-out sheets, or something else, you can take the paperwork part of teaching and digitize it with GoodReader. We will cover how to use this app to free up your time and energy so that you can focus on what's most important during the teaching day. We’ll show you how to ditch the file cabinet and keep digital paperwork right at your finger tips with GoodReader on your iPad.

1. Digitize & Streamline
Classroom Paperwork
Simple K12.com webinar - 9/20/11
Chris Casal
Technology Coordinator/Teacher
P. S. 10 Brooklyn (NYCDOE - 15K010)
ccasal@schools.nyc.gov
Twitter: @mr_casal

2. P. S. 10
New York City Department of Education public school
Park Slope vicinity, Brooklyn
~850 students
Pre K- 5th grade
38 classroom teachers, 7 clusters, 2 coaches, 2
administrators
http://ps10ipads.wikispaces.com

3. GoodReader
View almost any file format
Search the web within the app and download files
directly
Annotate PDF files with typewriter, shapes, and
freehand tools
great for “paperless” form signing, running records,
etc.
App - $4.99

4. Benefits
Go paperless
running records
conference notes
classroom forms
All “paperwork” digitized & always at your fingertips

6. Select a file to view it
Built in
web
browser
Available
servers
Alphabetical file
structure - both files Similar user interface (folder/
and folders file nav & structure) to most
OS’ and apps such as
Dropbox

8. Add new servers to access files
GoodReader will access Google
Apps accounts, cloud services,
and instructional servers

10. Manage
GoodReader
files just as you
would on your
PC Move files
Rename
files
Create
folders

12. Various annotation
options
Example of a
Teachers College
Running Record
being completed
Various view options
directly on the iPad
via GoodReader

14. Text tool
Annotation options
such as typing,
highlightening,
underlining and
shapes...
Freehand
drawing/writing

16. Replace the original of
save a copy
Before annotating
GoodReader will
prompt options - save
an annotated copy or
replace the original

18. Freehand tool &
toolbar - change
color and line
thickness

20. Typing tool -
Text box can contain as
much, or as little, as
needed. Also, author
names can be set to
track multiple user edits

22. Finished text
When finished typing
you can move it
around the page -
clicking “Done” sets
the text location (and
can be moved again if
need be)

24. Text editing toolbar

26. Freehand editing
toolbar

28. Example of a
Teachers College
Running Record
completed via
GoodReader

29. Customizable
Use personalized forms
Import any PDF files you want to annotate and keep
out of the traditional file cabinet
Use Microsoft Word or Apple’s Pages to export text
files as PDFs for annotation
go “paperless” with all your existing documents

31. Created a Word
document “sign
out” sheet. Saved
as PDF.
Imported to
GoodReader via
Dropbox

33. Teachers sign
directly on the
iPad - only need
to print when a
hard copy is
required

34. GoodReader
View almost any file format
Search the web within the app and download files
directly
Annotate PDF files with typewriter, shapes, and
freehand tools
great for “paperless” form signing, running records,
etc.
App - $4.99

35. Contact
Christopher M. Casal
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
P. S. 10 (15K010)
Email: ccasal@schools.nyc.gov
Twitter: @mr_casal
Diigo: mrcasal
www.mrcasal.com