Thursday, April 19, 2007

Desktop Publishing

Goal: To create a one page poster to educate or influence student’s decisions or attitudes towards lunch nutrition, cost effectiveness, or reducing lunch waste.


Skills:Use 8 of the following desktop publishing features on your poster

  • Page Border
  • Word Art
  • Auto Shapes
  • Text Boxes
  • Diagram / Organizational Chart
  • Insert Clip Art & Edit Picture
  • Line/Arrow options
  • Shadow
  • 3-D
  • Font Effects
  • Fill Color / Effects
  • Align / Rotate / Flip


Message:
Look at your Lunch data. Pick one area that you feel that you could educate or influence others. For example, make a poster encouraging students to make healthy food choices, or suggest bringing a lunch from home to reduce lunch waste.

Observation:

  • I created a one-page reference page that showed students how to customize each of the skills listed above.
  • Students used the reference page often to learn make the poster.
  • There was a lot of interaction between the students about how they were customizing the features for their poster.
  • All 18 students completed the activity.
  • The posters were hung up around the school.