CocoaBooklet

I am off to Australia next week with my wife and daughter.  My wife is attending an ultrasound conference on the Gold Coast and I am taking unpaid leave so that she does not have to be away from our daughter fo 10 days.  Unfortunately this means that I have to prepare lessons for my classes while I am gone, although Richard did point out that it is “unpaid” leave and “why prepare work” and after all relievers do get paid quite well.  The problem is that my HOD will end up carrying the can if I don’t set any work and she already has enough on her plate.

Now for the first time in years I find myself generating printable resources rather than pointing kids at moodle and to avoid printing the 12 pages on A4 I found this cool app called CocoaBooklet. (Mac only)

All I did was create my document in Pages, save it and then drag it over the CocoaBooklet icon, it reordered my pages and saved them as a PDF.  I printed the PDF using the automatic duplex mode on my Canon ip4600 printer and I have an A5 booklet using only 3 A4 sheets.

I dream of the day when every student has a laptop and a link to the net.  Until then CocoaBooklet is helping save some trees.