Standard VII

Desktop Publishing

The desktop publishing teacher has the knowledge and skills needed to teach the Foundations, Information Acquisition, Work in Solving Problems, Communication strands of the Technology Applications Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) in desktop publishing, in addition to the content described in Technology Applications Standards I-V.

Reflection: When I started this course, I thought I knew design principles. Robin Williams' book, The Non-Designer's Design Book, really opened my eyes!! What I have learned from this course has made me look at all printed media differently. In my opinion, the products that I make for the school and the community are now much better designed. In the future, this course will be one that I teach with more of a placement and design perspective than I have ever done before. I think back on some of my old desktop publishing products and I see many changes I really want to make. Hopefully, my future students will improve what they produce because I will teach them, show them, drill them, and try to inspire them to strive to incorporate design principles in all of their DTP products.

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Indicators: TA TEKS 7.10s, 7.14s, 7.15s, 7.46s, 7.18s, 7.43s, 7.37s, 7.31s,7.1s, 7.2s, 7.13s, 7.14s, 7.16s, 7.17s, 7.18s, 7.21s, 7.22s, 7.30s, 7.38s,7.28s, 8.20s, 7.29s, 7.47s, 8.43s, 8.44s, 8.45s, 9.41s

Artifact #6

Descriptors: Desktop Publishing to Send Messages

Title: My Desktop Publishing Product

Course: 104 Desktop Publishing

Date Created: January 14, 2003

Source: I put together my logo with a personal picture taken from one of my mosaiced tables.

Media: Adobe Photoshop and Print Shop Pro Publisher V15

Description: The assignment was to create a letterhead, business card, or any desktop publishing item of our choice that would reflect who we are and what we are into. The product needed a logo, eye-catching typography, supporting graphics, and be published in a universally readable format. I chose a business card to make for my business. I published mine in jpg and pdf formats.We had to link our formats of the product in a web page with explanations of each part of product.

Rationale: I picked this as my first artifact for Desktop Publishing because I am proud of my business card. It helped having someone to make me take the time to design the card. Time is always an issue with a busy life. I was really pleased with my results. I have one of my first table tops featured in the logo. I also learned how important your business card is as a first impression in the business world.

Implications for future: After reviewing the card to build this standards' page, I realized that I applied some correct design principles even before reading Robin Williams' design book, The Non-Designer's Design Book. Now that I have learned all about the design principles, I have taken these principles into my classroom with several projects. I have had the students design several things applying these newly defined principles. One of them was a business card. I was able to bring my card into the discussion and I had them design me one too. Myself and several of my students (hopefully all of them by the end of the course) will only produce better designed DTP products in the future because of the many design ideas we are learning, applying, and sharing.

Reviewer's Comments: I love the choice of font for the logo portion. The uneven and artsy look of the font fit in well with the mosaic theme--uneven and varied tiles, uneven font. The font was still very readable, but it just seemed to fit well with the theme.

Review's Name: Kathleen Markwardt

Date Reviewed: January 15, 2003

Title: 02-03 TATC student

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Indicators: Standards 1 and 5 - TA TEKS 7.1s,7.3s, 7.16s, 7.13s, 7.35s, 7.18s, 7.39s, 7.46s, 7.43s, 8.43s, 7.25s, 7.49s, 8.36s, 9.36s, 10.34s, 11.33s, 7.20s, 7.28s, 7.44s, 7.48s, 8.30s, 7.34s, 7.42s, 7.32s

Artifact #7

Descriptors: Unit/Lesson Plans

Title: You Are Invited To...

Course: 104A Desktop Publishing

Date Created: February 2, 2003

Source: Internet was used and the book The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams was the guide to all design.

Media: Used Photoshop for graphical work and Pro Publisher V15 for the structure of the invitation

Description: The purpose of this assignment was to build a lesson plan for the Desktop Publishing class to teach how to build and design a typical Desktop Publishing product (i.e. newsletter, brochure, business card, flyer, invitation, etc). The lesson was to be broken down into:

• Objective of lesson
• Teacher tools and supplies
• Concepts and TEKS
• Sample product of lesson
• Terms utilized in lesson
• Procedures used in instruction
• Assessment tool

Rationale: I chose this artifact because I felt like it was a good unit for this technology application course. I was very pleased with the structure and the presentation. Applying the concepts and facts learned from Robin Williams' book was what I gained from this assignment. I thought the book was very good at explanations of design, and this assignment made me use these principles and begin to really understand them.

Implications for future: I will use this unit/lesson in my classroom many times. I feel that the way this lesson is set up will be clear to my students. But first, I want them to read Williams book and then do several of these assignments. My improvement with these design principles will depend on me picking up the book and refreshing my memory and applying these principles to my own designs I do for myself, the school, and the community.

Reviewer's Comments: What a fun lesson! Nice layout on webpage. Good Instructions!

Review's Name: Janice North

Date Reviewed: February 2, 2003

Title: 02-03 TATC Participant

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