Sample Spotlight and Instructions

Customize a Spotlights with information about exciting and fun opportunities for children and families to enjoy interest-based learning in your community! It's EASY!

Download a completed example: Spotlights on Books

Here's how you can use the editable Spotlights you order:

Before you begin you'll need:

• Adobe Acrobat Reader to open Spotlights on your computer.
  http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
  (It's FREE!)
• CutePDF Form Filler to be able to save changes to your Spotlights. http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/Filler.asp
  (It's available online, for $29)

1. Community Mapping: Gather information from every possible source in your community about children's learning and recreation opportunities in the interest areas covered by the Spotlights. Consult telephone and city directories, parks and recreation departments, chambers of commerce, tourist bureaus, and knowledgeable community members.
2. Open a Spotlights in CutePDF Form Filler and follow the instructions that appear in semi-transparent boxes beside the document.
3. First, copy the Spotlights to your computer and close the original version on the CD. You will add your local information to this copy.
4. On Page One, use the "hand tool" to click your cursor in the small box (where you see a bright blue dotted outline) in the upper right corner. Type in the name, address, telephone, and other contact information for your program or organization. (See Figure 1.)
5. On Page Two, click in the first yellow-outlined text space and type in the names and location of the relevant community resources you've collected. When this space is filled, click in the second box and continue entering your information. Text does not "flow" between columns. (See Figure 2.)
6. CutePDF Form Filler allows you to save your custom version of the Spotlight with all the information you've added. Print your Spotlight (in full color or black-andwhite) on two sides of 8.5" by 11" bright white paper, and distribute widely to families in your community. Then experience the magic of interest-based fun and learning!