DTSE2007:PDF portable document format

Portable Document Format (PDF)
This article is geared for physical science teachers. For a full write-up on PDF see this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdf

Description of technology

 * an open standard file format, created by Adobe Systems. PDF documents maintain their layouts on different systems.

Ideas for Innovated Applications

 * It maintains its formatting when moved from platform to platform
 * Each student sees exactly what the teacher intended them to see
 * Since graphics and diagrams don't change a teacher can print out a document for a model or 3-D object that can be printed out and crafted together by the students in preparation for class to save time.