When I need to make a quick invitation for a reward party in the library or when I want to inform parents of what is going on in our K-Kids organization, I turn to MicrosoftPublisher. Since it is readily available on my school or home computer, I always have quick access to this valuable publishing resource.
Desktop publishing software is a useful tool that enables students and educators to create professional-looking printed or electronic pages. It allows users to mix text and graphics on each page and can be mastered easily with a little practice.
With it teachers can make flyers, reports newsletters, brochures, and student handouts. It is also useful to students who can use it to create cards and letters to give to parents, produce attractive hard-copy additions to group projects, write up a field trip report, and make banners and homework calendars.
Instructional benefits include increase in motivation and task engagement. When students publish their own work, their self-esteem is enhanced as well as their writing skills. It also lends itself well to small group collaboration projects.
One popular example of a desktop publishing project used in social studies is to have students create travel brochures describing a region. This type project that results in their work being published is popular with students.
Examples of desktop publishing software packages include the already mentioned Microsoft Publisher, as well as Adobe Pagemaker and InDesign, and Quark Xpress.
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Cinda,
ReplyDeleteI have not used MicroSoft Publisher but I am familiar with it by name. I hope to use it when I become a librarian.
I liked your background, so I went to the website and found one for my blog. Hope you don't mind.
Elisabeth Mobley
Hello Cinda!
ReplyDeleteI love Microsoft Publisher! The templates are really easy to use so the learning curve is minimal. I use the business card template to make flash cards for my calculus students - lots of rules to learn!
Loved your ideas,
~Tina
Elizabeth, of course I don't mind that you went to the same website for your background! I thought it might be fun to play around with it.
ReplyDeleteTina, that's a great idea for flash cards. I'm going to share that with our math coordinator.
Cinda