Week three 201 Lab
Hsueh-Hua Chuang
Desktop Publishing
Section 15

Basic Design Principles
• Proximity
• Alignment
• Repetition
• Contrast
• PARC this should be familiar from lecture and your readings

What is desktop publishing?
• Combination of text and graphics
• Educational uses
– Authentic Activities/Assessment (Grabe &
Grabe pages 65-67, 68 , & 92-93)
– Meaningful Learning (Grabe & Grabe pages 56-57)
– Student or teacher created
• Software applications

Where do I get images?
• Clip Art
• The Internet
• Scan images
• Take images with a digital camera
• Create Your Own

Graphic File Format
• BMP (windows)
• GIF (Both)
• JPG/JEPG (Both)
• PICT (Mac)
• TIFF ( Both, large file)

Application overview
• Word
• Appleworks
• Student Writing Center
• Kidpix
• Any others you are familiar with ?

Assignment details (I)
• DTP rubrics:
• 201 website
• Planning sheet and reflection
..discussion
• Lesson plan sites from 201 website may have ideas

Assignment details (II)
Planning Sheet and reflection…insert discussion here ( manual 18)
Goals should NOT be technology driven
(example: you are not teaching how to use kid pix, you are teaching …)
Performance objectives should be written using
Bloom’s Taxonomy (lab manual 20)
Keep in mind Gardner’s 8 Multiple Intelligences
(lab manual 21)

Lesson plan/planning sheet
(p.18)
• Grade level and Subject Area
• Title of Lesson
• Goals (should NOT be the technology)
• Content standards
• Technology standards
• Performance objectives (step by step going through the assignment)

How will you turn it in?
• Hard copy(printed) at the beginning of class next week
• using the drop box
• The majority of your time should be spent on the planning and reflection pieces
• Color copies will NOT affect your grade

Examples
• North Polk
Elementary School
• Newsletters created by kids studying different subjects

More desktop publishing examples
Edible cells
These were digital
Pictures paired with
Written explanations .

Posters

Lab/Lecture connections
• Blooms taxonomy
• Meaningful learning
• Copyright issues
• Lesson plan ideas
• ACTIVE
• Visual literacy

Time to work ( Help Sheet )
– With your learning partner:
• Use the DTP software of your choice to create a SIMPLE collage that will help to introduce yourselves to the class
• Include:
– Text
– Scanned images, images from the web, digital camera picts, clip art, etc…..
– Turn these in to the drop-box before class is over
– Remember to SAVE and SAVE often!
– When you are finished, begin work on your DTP project

Acknowledgement
These PowerPoint Slides are made possible by collaborative efforts with
Cynthia Garrety & Sara Rinkleff.
I have learned from them as well as other
TAs in CI201 precious teaching techniques and innovative technology integration ideas.

Next week
• Do the readings!
• Attend lab and lecture
• Check your email!
• Come ready to learn something new
• Have desktop publishing assignment ready to turn in