(1) Desktop Publishing: Teachers frequently need to develop newsletters, handouts, flyers, study guides and notes that incorporate graphics and text.

• Submit one or more course-based documents (handouts, flyers, etc.) that incorporate the following features. Your documents should be related to what you teach, professional in appearance and useful to you or your students or school. Please place your documents in the portfolio immediately following the assignment template.

  Note: Use the help feature in Word to learn more about the specific functions mentioned in this assignment. You may also wish to use the Newsletter Wizard to give you some ideas (File/New/Other Documents/Newsletter). In-class practice lesson : Click on this link to proceed to the in-class practice lesson for this assignment. Sample files.

Requirements

Error checking	Two or more pages of text that has been checked for spelling, grammar, style, and readability.
Text	Text that includes different fonts, special symbols or equations.
Tables	One or more well-formatted data tables.
Index/contents	Use automatic table of contents or indexing features if appropriate.
Styles	Use styles to format non-contiguous text within document.
Scanned graphics	One or more well-formatted, imported, and positioned scanned graphics.
Embedded graphics	Embedded graph, spreadsheet worksheet, organizational chart, word art, or equation.
Web graphics	Two or more well-formatted and positioned graphics imported from the web.
Edited graphics	One or more graphics that you have edited and labeled (this may be one of the graphics above).
Charts & Graphs, Callouts	Include charts, graphs, or callouts
Movies, Music, speeches	Include a movie, speech or musical piece in your file
Text Boxes	Use text boxes to position and label graphics. Format your text using linked text boxes so text flows from one box to another.
Formatting	Two or more sections of text with distinctly different formats (margins, indents, spacing, number of columns etc.)
Annotations	Include three or more of the following: footnotes, endnotes, annotations, appropriate weblinks, headers, footers, or automatic pagination.
Hyperlinks	Download graphics to a local folder. Establish hyperlinks from text in your document to these graphics so you can access them by clicking on the document.

Obtaining text: There is a tremendous amount of classic public domain text on the Internet. This information can be incorporated into this assignment if you wish. There are ways of copying public domain text to your word processor while keeping the formatting. You may also search for text on the web using an advanced search engine such as AltaVista . For the Boolean query, enter the name of the document you desire in quotes (e.g. "Declaration of Independence"). For the sorting, select "full text".

Image Sources: You may acquire art for your document by scanning pictures, capturing images from a program or website, download them from a website. Make certain to cite all material.