Desktop+Publishing

**Desktop Publishing-** this is useful for teaching because it can help you design certain information that you want to hand out to parents and coworkers as well to be used in the classroom. It is a useful tool to use for communicating with families and to use with your students. Examples include newsletters, brochures and powerpoint and the like.

PDF-- When you put you desktop publishing on your wiki, put it in two file formats (1) .ppt or .doc or whatevr program you used to create the document (2) .pdf. Always include the pdf version so families who do not have your programs can sill read the document. To make a file into a pdf (Mac) print- pdf, (windows) install a pdf creator ( free pdf creator at []

Here is a sample newsletter to families

Here is my sample 3-fold brochure and lesson plan

Here is an example of a board game using desktop publishing.