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- Subject: Desktop Publishing - I D E A S
- Gathered off the Internet, source unknown
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- The following is a compilation of ideas on ways to use Desktop Publishing
- in the classroom.
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- ADVERTISING - Bring graphic design into ads. Include in newsletters.
- ANNOUNCEMENTS / FLYERS
- BANNERS - Print Shop Deluxe makes it easy
- BOOK PUBLISHING - Students take real ownership when they put a book
- together from start to finish. Sell through student store. Submit to
- publishers.
- BOOK REVIEWS - Students write review of book, scan cover and picture of
- self for 1 page review. Compile reviews into a publication for others.
- BOOKMARKS - Create, laminate
- BUSINESS CARDS - Create logo with draw/paint software. Form business with
- cards, letterhead, etc.
- CALENDARS
- CARDS - Birthdays, get well, sympathy...
- CATALOGS
- COOKBOOKS - Write to famous people, get their favorite recipe (one person
- told of getting chocolate recipes - even Stephen King's), compile in a
- book and sell. Donate earnings to a worthy cause.
- INVITATIONS
- LETTERHEAD - Students create their own personal letterhead for special
- projects/assignments
- MAGAZINES - Each student creates a article for a magazine with a focus,
- i.e., Solar System, Endangered Animals, Civil War...
- MEMOS
- NEWSLETTERS - For parents, other students, your staff, community.
- NOTE PADS - Classroom or cooperative working groups design and create
- their own.
- ORDER FORMS - For much of the above.
- PAMPHLETS / BROCHURES - This year's students create tri-fold brochure for
- next year's students on what to expect, supplies to bring, etc. Mail them
- in August.
- POETRY
- POSTCARDS - Mail to pen pals or key pals.
- POSTERS
- PROGRAMS - Create fall,. winter, spring sports programs. Musical
- production programs.
- REPORTS
- SURVEYS / QUESTIONNAIRES
- T-SHIRTS - Buy special iron-on paper for print out after design to
- culminate, begin an exciting unit.
- YEARBOOKS
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- Best Advice.... Don't think of DTP as something to go and do at them
- computer for 60 minutes but rather as just another tool.
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- Some good books for educators...
- "Working with Words and Pictures" by Lori Siebert & Mary Cropper.
- "Desktop Publishing: The Art of Communication" by John Madama.
- "Graphic Design on the Desktop" by Marcelle Lapow Toor.
- "Ready-to-Use Layouts for Desktop Design" by David Collier & Kay Floyd
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