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January, 2005

 

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Publisher Quick Start

What is Publisher?

Microsoft Publisher is software designed to (no surprise) aid in desktop publishing.  Its features focus around the creation of magazines, newspapers, newsletters, fliers, posters and brochures.

How do I access Publisher?

On the RBHS system, you can reach Pubisher by selected it from the "Microsoft" menu of the Novell Application Launcher.

Why would I use Publisher in a classroom?

Students access information in a variety of ways - traditional word processing being only one of them.  Publisher allows you to mimic the content of magazines and newspapers.

Publisher also lends itself more easily to the inclusion of graphic elements with writing than a traditional word processing program.

Follow the links below for sample lesson ideas for using Inspiration:

The Site Why It's Useful
Publisher Lesson Plans This site is run by Microsoft itself.  It is a searchable database of lesson ideas using its products.  It has the right mindset by using the software as a TOOL rather than as the guide of the lesson.
Publisher Projects Set up by a school district.  Look at the bottom of this site - a whole list of examples and templates used in school projects.
About.com - Plans using Desktop Publishing This one keeps the ideas open-ended/generic so that you can adapt them to your particular unit of study.  It talks specifically about using Publisher to do a "famous resume" project - something that Mark Gouwens, Kristen Cieplak, and Rachel Greenman have used as a WebQuest already, though theirs uses MS Word.

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