Powerful Publishing with Design and Layout
This ICT starter idea written by teachers, for teachers, describes how students
could design and create appropriate material for a variety of purposes, including:
school production, integrated technology, planning a party.
Curriculum reference
English curriculum – visual language
Prerequisites
Minimal knowledge of a desktop publishing program
Resources
- Microsoft Publisher
- Works
- Apple Works
- Draw
Possible context
Desktop publishing items for a party, for example, cards, invitations, letters,
posters, banners, coasters, place mats, and menus.
Suggested process for a party theme
- Large-group discussion on the party theme, What's involved in a party?
- Make a list of the various types of printed material needed in a party, for
example, cards, invitations, and posters.
- Have a discussion about cost effectiveness with printing (colour/ black and white).
- Design information piece, for example, cards, invitations, letters, posters,
banners, coasters, place mats, and menus.
Author
Tamati Elers telers@gisint.co.nz
September 2000
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