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many new and useful features

easy to reorder pages in a PDF documen

The Mark Up icon provides a drop-down menu with highlighting, strike-through and underlining tools, all fantastic for editing text.

choose Customize Toolbar from the View menu.

Annotate icon's drop-down menu lets you add colored ovals, rectangles, lines, notes and hyperlinks to PDF

Choose Sidebar from the View menu, then click and drag any page to its new location.

Preview can capture, display and save a picture

Choose Grab Selection, Grab Window or Grab Timed Screen from the File menu.

Preview can now open, edit, and save many types of image files including TIFF, GIF, JPEG and Photoshop files.

Click the What's New in Preview link in Preview Help to learn more.

Unfortunately, IMHO, electronic whiteboards are not a technology which inherently encourages pedagogic shifts in instructional practices

whiteboards continue to be used in very teacher-directed, didactic learning settings

I’d like to see all our schools proactively plan and implement sustainable one-to-one laptop learning initiatives.

I am quite tired of seeing so many teachers continue to persist in 19th century styles of teaching using 21st century tools.

As Marco Torres says, if teachers are still just asking kids to read pages 1 - 20 and answer questions 1 - 10 from the textbook, but now doing it with a flashy electronic whiteboard instead of a chalkboard or overhead projector, technology dollars have just been WASTED.

Smartboards are fun to use and often represent “low hanging fruit” for school board members as well as administrators who want to find visible ways to show the public “we support technology use in our schools” but at the same time minimize the potentially disruptive impact of those technologies on the traditional teaching and learning paradigm.