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The
Willowbrook definition of
Publishing is:
Combining Text and Graphics in a Layout. After a fashion students have been publishing since very early in their elementary school careers. To cut a picture from a magazine, paste it on a poster board and write a caption for it IS publishing according to our PHSD definition. In the computer lab our publishing efforts will of course be significantly more sophisticated. To "combine text with graphics in a layout" students will need to use three type of programs: graphics(paint and drawing programs), text (word processors) and layout (html editors, PowerPoint or OOPresentation). The programs we will use in the computer lab are THE G.I.M.P. (GNU Image Manipulation Program) for bitmaps, OpenOffice (OO) Draw for vectored graphics, OOWrite (or MSWord) for text, NVU for layout and OOPresentation (or PowerPoint) for screen presentations. These (with the exception of MSWord and PowerPoint) are programs originally written for Unix/Linux based computers and were given to the public by such companys as SunMicroSystems (Open Office), Linspire (NVU) and The Open Source Institute. I have chosen to use Open Office, NVU and GIMP for a number of reasons: 1) Everything a student learns in these programs is directly transferable to the commercial programs like MSOffice, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Illustrator. 2) These programs are in the public domain or are Open Source. (www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) therefore you are able to acquire them with little or no expense and our students will be able to have the same great programs they use at school loaded on their home computers. 3) I am able to legally give copies of these programs to students. 4) Last but not least - they are GREAT PROGRAMS!!!! Links: NVU, The G.I.M.P. and Open Office |
| Program / Instruction Notes November - December 2011 6TH - 8tTH Grade Web Publishing Introduction Layout Assignments NVU (pronounced N-view) WYSIWYG html editing: NVU Graded Activity 1 NVU Graded Activity 2 NVU Graded Activity 3 NVU Graded Activity 4 |