Pages



Pages  (Word Processor and Page Layout Application)

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= Description =

Pages is a word-processor and page layout tool developed by [|Apple Inc]. It can be used to create simple word documents as well as newsletters, brochures, resumes, reports, and more. Templates for the aforementioned document types are included in the program. Pages is currently only available for use with [|OS X] and [|iOS] operating systems, officially limited to Apple computers and devices ([|iPad], [|iPhone],[| iPod Touch]). Pages is also compatible with [|Microsoft Word]. Word files can be opened in Pages, and documents in Pages can be saved as Word files. Pages documents can also be saved as RTF files or as plain text. Documents can also be exported as ePub or PDF files for compatibility with [|iBooks] on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. The most recently released version is Pages ‘09 (Version 4.2) [1] for Mac OS X and Pages (Version 1.6.2) [2]  for Apple devices. Both Versions are available for purchase at the [|Mac App Store].

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= History =

The first version of Pages (1.0) for Mac OS X was released in 2005 and has undergone multiple updates and revisions prior to its current iteration (4.2). The following is a chart [3]  detailing the history of Pages.


 * = ===Version Number === ||= ===Release Date === ||= ===Changes === ||
 * = ====1.0 ==== || ====February 2005 ==== || ====Initial release. ==== ||
 * = ====1.0.1 ==== || ====March 2005 ==== || ====Fixes isolated bugs and issues causing problems to some customers. ====

It also allowed the deletion of template pages.
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 * = ====1.0.2 ==== || ====May 2005 ==== || ====Addresses issues with page navigation and organization. ==== ||
 * = ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">2.0 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">January 2006 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Released as part of iWork '06. Includes new templates, table calculations, ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">photo masking with shapes and freestyle bezier curves.
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 * = ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">2.0.1 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">April 2006 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Addresses issues with charts and image adjust. It also addresses a ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">number of other minor issues.
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 * = ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">2.0.1v2 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">May 2006 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Addresses issues with charts and image adjust. It also addresses a ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">number of other minor issues.
|| ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">[|Office Open XML] ([|Microsoft Office 2007]) files. Introduced Change ====
 * = ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">2.0.2 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">September 2006 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Addresses issues with Aperture compatibility. ==== ||
 * = ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">3.0 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">August 2007 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Pages 3.0 released as part of iWork '08. Introduced compatibility with ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> the added functionality.
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 * = ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">3.0.1 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">September 2007 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Addresses issues with performance and change tracking. ==== ||
 * = ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">3.0.2 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">January 2008 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">This update addresses compatibility with Mac OS X. ==== ||
 * = ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">3.0.3 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">February 2008 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Compatibility issues. ==== ||
 * = ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">4.0 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">January 2009 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Released as a part of iWork '09. New features include the ability to edit in ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> visible).
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 * = ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">4.0.1 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">March 2009 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Improves reliability when working with [|EndNote] X2 or [|MathType] 6, or ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">deleting Pages files.
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 * = ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">4.0.2 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">May 2009 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Improves reliability when saving documents. ==== ||
 * = ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">4.0.3 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">September 2009 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Improves reliability with full-screen mode, applying transparency to ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">images, and EndNote citations.
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 * = ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">4.0.4 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">August 2010 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Adds support for exporting to the [|EPUB] format (for use with iBooks) and ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> fixes problems with tables.
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 * = ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">4.0.5 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">January 2011 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Improves the readability of exported ePub documents. ==== ||
 * = ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">4.1 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">July 2011 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Adds support for Mac OS X Lion, including: Full-Screen, Resume, Auto ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Compatibility.
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 * = ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">4.2 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">July 2012 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Adds support for Mac OS X Mountain Lion and storing documents in [|iCloud] ==== ||

= Impact on Learning and Teaching =

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Word Processors as a tool have had a tremendous impact on education. In addition to saving time, it helps create professional looking documents. Pages takes the word processor one step further by integrating a page layout tool that increases the productivity this software as well as the possibilities. The various preloaded templates can assist students in learning to construct properly formatted letters, resumes, and reports. Advanced students can begin with a blank document and determine their own layout. Students can express their creativity by arranging text and images as they see fit. Apple has included an [|Outline] mode feature that allows users to easily rearrange and organize reports. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; vertical-align: super;">[4]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> media type="youtube" key="E9GKBS7-Eks" height="315" width="420"

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Pages can also be a useful tool for teachers. Hand outs can easily be modified to be more aesthetically appealing or perhaps one of the various design templates could be used to spice-up a worksheet. Attractive announcements could be created to post around the classroom. The word processor can be used to produce letters to send home and print label on the corresponding envelopes. In addition, by using [|iBooks], teachers can export documents created in Pages to [|ePub] format. This way, students can access the document at school, home or on the road from just about any e-reader.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> ** Research on the Impact of Word Processing ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Research on the benefits of word processing in education yields contradictory findings. Results of studies of the effects of word processing on quality and quantity of writing are mixed (Bangert-Drowns, 1993). Three reviews of research (Bangert-Drowns, 1993; Hawisher, 1989; Snyder, 1993) found that these differences in findings may reflect differences in researchers' choices of types of word processing systems, prior experience and writing ability of students, and types of writing instruction evaluated. Generally, word processing seems to improve writing and attitudes toward writing only if it is used in the context of good writing instruction and if students have enough time to learn word processing procedures before the study begins.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> When Goldberg, Russell, and Cook (2003) updated these findings with a meta-analysis of studies from 1992 to 2002, they focused not only on whether word processing had more impact than handwritten methods but also on identifying when word processing could have the most impact on the quantity and quality of students' writing. Their meta-analysis showed a stronger relationship between computers and quality of writing than previous such analyses had. Students who use computers during writing instruction produce written work that is about 0.4 standard deviation better than students who develop writing skills on paper. Their analysis also suggested that when students write with computers, they "engage in the revising of their work throughout the writing process, more frequently share and receive feedback from their peers, and benefit from teacher input earlier in the writing process" (p. 19). <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; vertical-align: super;">[5]

=<span style="color: #1f1abf; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Practical Applications =

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">** For students: **
 * Writing reports
 * Composing letters
 * Resumes
 * Cards
 * Invitations

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> **For teachers:**
 * Newsletters
 * Worksheets
 * Handouts
 * Business cards
 * Posters

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> For students, many of these skills, such as writing a letter or resume in the proper format will also be useful in the real world.

= Demonstrations =

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> media type="youtube" key="HtANK8HR6IU" height="315" width="420" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Getting started with Pages

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> media type="youtube" key="_g9B-oTGEZg" height="315" width="560" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Using Pages for brochure creation

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">media type="youtube" key="Y095hJmoMdo" height="315" width="560" Using Pages with the iPad

= External Links =

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[] Mac App Store <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> [] Apple Pages support <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> [|http://www.macrumors.com/] Unofficial Source of Apple information <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> [] Unofficial Pages FAQ [|http://www.apple.com/ios/] Apple iOS information [] A site for sharing templates for iWorks applications [] Information on the iWork suite

=<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1f1abf; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> References =

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[1] __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">^ __<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Release of Pages '09 as part of iWork '09 [|Wikipedia] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> [2] ^ Release of Pages 1.6.2 for iOS [|Wikipedia] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[3] __^__ Pages history - Wikipedia chart of Pages release history [|Wikipedia] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[4] __^__ Pages '09: Use Outline Mode [|Apple Support] [5] __^__ Article: The Impact of Word Processing in Education - [|Education.com]

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=<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1f1abf; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">About the Author =

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">David Cypriano is a first year Graduate Student in the Educational Technology (ETEC) Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.