After much blood, sweat and tears (yes, folks - 'my' blood, sweat and tears!!) our Gr4 Author/Tech project is complete. It has been uploaded to Apple for publishing, and the printed books are being shipped as I type. There was quite a large learning curve for me, and lessons I've learnt I hope to apply in the future. One hurdle I had to overcome was using PhotoShop to take out the backgrounds of the images that students would use for their digital collage. It took a while for me to realise that jpeg images would not maintain background transparency, so all images had to be converted to png format. Another issue I had to address was page orientation. The original Hanoch Piven books we used for inspiration were in portrait orientation, whereas Apple only provide landscape orientation. Here is the final product!
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Thanks to Martin Tiller! Last week I mentioned to him about using Desk Top Publishing in school. Somehow this seems to have fallen out of vogue in recent years, especially in the light of publishing to the internet (blogs, websites etc.). I'm especially interested in class magazines or newsletters. He suggested trying MS Publisher 2007, part of the MS Office 2007 suite. To that end I attempted to test drive in 5/6W. I gave them a Halloween template and suggested they write two main articles on the page, one article about Halloween in school (class party, or pumpkin carving), and one article about Halloween at home. We had pictures taken by the students in school to use, and I allowed the students to search for copyright free images on google and Flickr. I was quite pleased with both the student response and their engagement.
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