This year I was prepared.But last time around I introduced WikiSpaces and Google Docs to my students mid-term. My adventures were not without setbacks (see Larry's Adventures in Wikiland), but some of the groups and individuals produced remarkable podcasts, videos, web sites and wikis. So then I decided that I wanted to share, blog about, or just show off their work. Consequently, I was generating ad hoc notifications and permission slips throughout the year.
This summer I whipped up three notification / waivers for my three courses. Check out the one I prepared for American Government (Click for pdf).
The document was made with iWork '09. I used a brochure template and found the banner with a public domain search. The Pages application allowed me to easily match the colors of the banner throughout the document. I thought the coolest feature was my ability to drop the public domain photo of the capitol dome into the background of the document. (A one minute Atomic Learning tutorial taught me this trick). Even a clod like me could produce a slick looking document and publish it as a pdf.
My students' first assignment of the semester was to download this document, get it signed and return it to class.
100% of them have done so, and only one parent declined any of the permissions. Pretty cool.
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Photo is a screen capture of Lit into Film course waiver.
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