RESOURCES FOR IN-CLASS PRACTICE LESSON FOR

DESKTOP PUBLISHING ASSIGNMENT

NOTE: This is a practice assignment only. Do not submit this in your portfolio. To complete this assignment, you will need to submit one or more documents (relevant to your role as an educator) that incorporate the features described in the assignment.

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Get text: Get dummy text from Lorem Ipsum typesetting generator.

Styles: Use styles to identify different heading levels within document. Note, if you use Microsoft Office (2000 or later) in conjunction with Explorer (5.5 or later), very little clean up is necessary.

Table of contents: Insert the text from these two speeches into the sample document for this in-class assignment.

Use Word Art: Create a title for this sample using Word Art.

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.

Text Boxes: Format your text using linked text boxes so text flows from one box to another. See a sample newsletter with linked text boxes

Movies, Music, Speech: Include a movie, speech or musical piece in your file

Cite text: Always cite sources using footnotes or endnotes.

Bullets & numbers: Reconfigure bulleted/numbered information in sample document.

Insert graphics: Acquire images of the Moon from the NASA Image exchange, or other image libraries, as well as from scanned images. Insert these graphics into text boxes and insert textural descriptions. Additional images may be available from other related websites.

Insert and configure tables: Import and reconfigure the table of planetary data.

Charts: Use the charting feature in Word to illustrate the number of lunar missions/year.