According to our textbook, desktop publishing (DTP) software has given computer-users the ability to create professional looking material for both print and electronic pages. Materials can be created that incorporate text, graphics, digital pictures, stylized headlines, and professionally prepared design elements. The ease of this type of software allows those that are not computer experts to still create and manipulate varies types of documents that are professional and useful.
This type of academic software is important in education because it allows both the teacher and student to create varies types of documents for varies needs. With ease a teacher or student can create worksheets/tests with graphics or digital pictures, posters, signs, flyers, brochures, newsletters, certificates, flash cards, letters for parents, permission slips for field trips, and banners. Educators can now use desktop publishing software to create web pages with the web site authoring component that can easily be converted to the World Wide Web, allowing a professional looking web site layout for teachers to create and upload onto the Web. This component allows parents and students to view classroom activities and assignments on the Web from anywhere in the world.
As a future school librarian, I plan to utilize desktop publishing software to create library newsletters, certificates, brochures, signs and flyers to spread the word of what is going on in my library. I would also like to utilize the web site authoring component to create an attractive web site layout for my library to share our library news with the world.
W. Jones
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I love publisher and definitely want to check out the web site authoring component you mentioned. I'm not sure our school has that component. Publisher is also very easy to work with and it's user friendly. Our librarians use publisher to create newsletters for faculty and staff about what's going on in the library.
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