December 02, 05

Friday - December 02

Create the world's grooviest newsletter or second grooviest

this will be a gradable project:

• 25% for design - creativity - originality - appropriateness
• 50% for content
• 25 % for having it done by end of class

Today - with our substitute who will most definitely be marking behaviour for me we will make a newsletter. Please do not ask the sub for help - but help each other with minimum disturbance.

Save this in your folder as newsletter so I can mark it over the weekend. Word > TWO > Publication > newsletter

YOUR NEWSLETTER WILL BE ON WHATEVER YOU WANT as long as it is appropriate for the Academies. Some suggestions are to make your newsletter about the sports team you are on (you may need to go on to the web to find images, for example of a swimmer or someone playing lawn bowls) or about a club you belong to or about the future of your brain - will you have nanobots inserted into your noggin to make you smarter? see

maybe you are a great chef and want to make a newsletter about tofu recipes, or a trainer of marsupials... it is up to you.

Before you add your stories to the newsletter, give some thought to how you want the newsletter to appear. Publisher makes it easy to design and produce an attractive newsletter and because you are the best of the best when it comes to creativity I have very high expectations of you. While you can create newsletters (or any other publication) from scratch in Publisher, the notes below will focuses on creating a newsletter using one of the Newsletter Wizard designs available in Publisher.

1. Start Publisher. In the New Publication task pane, click Publications for Print, and then click Newsletters.
2. Pick a template (I like 'Bubbles', you may be feeling a bit more mature and select something else)  NOTE; the amount of pages is on the bottom of your window - it should have 'four' pages.
3. In the Newsletter Options task pane [the left hand column > Page Content]:
   • Under One- or two-sided printing, click  2.
   • Under Customer address, click None.
   • Click Page Content [still in the panel on the left] to choose the number of columns and the types of information you want on each page. On the inside pages of a two-sided newsletter (click the numbers 2 or 3 where it shows four pages lined up at the bottom of your screen), the Select a page to modify box appears. Select Left inside page or Right inside page, for each page, there are several things to choose: 3 stories, Calendar, Order form, Response form, or Sign-up form. CHOOSE 3-STORIES for the Left Inside page and 'Response form' for the Right inside page.
   • Click Publication Designs if you want to choose a different design (Such as Bubbles).
   • Click Color Schemes to choose the color scheme you want.
   • Click Font Schemes to choose the typeface designs you want.
4. Replace placeholder text with your own text [this is what your grade for this project will mostly be on]:
   • Click the placeholder text, and then type your own text.
   • To insert text from another file, right-click to select the placeholder text, point to Change Text, click Text File, choose your file, and then click OK.

   Notes

   • The placeholder text provides an estimate of the number of words an article should contain to fit in the newsletter. You can use this information when making assignments.
   • In most cases, such as article headlines, the text resizes automatically to fit within the text box.
   • If you have already created a personal information set, your contact information and logo will replace some of the placeholder text automatically.
5. Replace placeholder pictures with your own pictures:
   • Right-click the placeholder picture, and then point to Change Picture. (If you don't see Change Picture when you right-click, click the placeholder picture once until you see the white circles surrounding the picture's frame. Click the picture again until you see gray circles with x's in them surrounding the picture itself, and then right-click the picture.)
   • Choose the source of the new picture, choose the file, and then click Insert.
6. When your newsletter looks the way you want it to, click Save on the File menu.

Print your newsletter

send it to the printer on the third floor in Ms. Goold's room. Our printer is still waiting for ink. Go to printer: 3rd floor Xerox and put it in the tray on my desk.

To print a newsletter on your desktop printer

1. In Publisher, open the newsletter publication that you want to print.
2. Select 3rd floor Xerox
3. On the File menu, click Print Preview to review your work, and then click Close.
4. On the File menu, click Print, and then choose the printer that you want your newsletter to print to.
5. Under Copies, select 1.
6. Under Print range, click All, and then click OK.

Create your own newsletter template

Once you have completed your first newsletter, you can save it as a template to use over and over again.

A template maintains consistency in your newsletter by remembering all of your previous formatting decisions. The template file can be opened and edited, but the new publication must be saved under a different file name to avoid inadvertently changing your original newsletter template.

To create a newsletter template from an existing publication

1. In Publisher, open the newsletter publication you want to use as the basis for a template.
2. On the File menu, click Save As.
3. In the Save As dialog box, from the Save as type list, select Publisher Template (*.pub).
4. In the File name box, type a recognizable file name (such as 4-page Newsletter Template), and then click OK. Be sure you saved it to your folder and not the desktop.

To create the next issue of your newsletter

1. In the New Publication task pane, click Templates, and then click your newsletter template on the right.
2. Incorporate new content = if there is time left in the lesson make another newsletter - it won't be for credit but it will make you a better person and the world just that bit more smarter for the experience.