Lesson Plan: Beginning Microsoft Publisher. Unit Plan " A Jazzy Renaissance"

     A Cultural Experience for the 21st Century


 

Unit Plan:A Jazzy Renaissance

Teacher: Essex Garner 

LTC 8900: Artistic Thinking: Multimedia Applications for Teaching Art Course
     Developed by Melissa A. Mudd

Art Strands: Making Commercial Art, Art History, Art Criticism,
                    and Diversity. Connect 19th & 20th Century Social
                    Issues with the 21st Century Classroom

Grade levels: 9 through 12
Age levels: 13 through 17

 

 
    Conceptual Structure:  Now that your students have created all the artwork over the last couple of weeks within this unit plan, lets digitally record their efforts in Microsoft Publisher. If you do not have access to the Publisher Program most any digital software can accomplish this task. Microsoft Publisher, is a desktop publishing application from Microsoft. It is an entry-level application, differing from Microsoft Word in that the emphasis is placed on page layout and design rather than text composition and proofing. The current version is Microsoft Publisher 2010 for Windows; there is no version for Macintosh. Publisher has a relatively small share of the desktop publishing market. Publisher has historically been less well liked among high-end commercial print shops, compared with other desktop publishing applications.

  

Main Ideas and Introduction: During the time all of the projects were being created within this unit plan, make sure that your students were capturing their creations with a digital device of your choosing. these Show to your students different digital portfolios that they can use as examples but nothing overly complicated.

Publisher is included in high-end editions of Microsoft Office. This reflects Microsoft's emphasis on Publisher as an easy-to-use and less expensive alternative to the "heavyweights," with a focus on the small business market where firms do not have dedicated design professionals available to make marketing materials and other documents

 

1. Goals and Objectives:

  • Students will learn to use a new digital technique to record their media skills with the Renaissance unit plan.

  • This lesson strengthens the student’s awareness in digital media and publishing rights and concepts.
     

  • Students will connect their artistic imagery with this digital program and present their artistic accomplishments and their socially relevance themes at the end of this unit.       
                                 

  • The students will demonstrate prior knowledge of lessons learned within the foundational elements of previous lessons.
     

  • The students will examine the type facing, digital file formats, and author digital applications to make their presentations effective.
     

  • Students will also use the topographical information in these lesson with their final presentation.

 

2. Instructional critical study:

  • Follow the handout provided within this link for specific steps to create a Publishing Documents.
     

  • HANDOUT OUTLINE: Attachment Word Document

 

 

References:

Microsoft Publisher made Easy – The Beginning (2010).

http://www.fictionwriting.org/microsoft-publisher-made-easy-the-beginning.php

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