Publish or Perish!!!Doing Desk Top Publishing in the EFL Classroom

Jamie Fowlie

Universidade da Coruña

Doing Desk Top Publishing in the EFL Classroom News Media in Educational Settings Doing DTP: ‘Making the News Unit Observations & Issues

News Media in Education

English courses Media studies EFL units/activities Our daily lives

Propaganda History of the Press Subjectivity of readers

Ethics Freedom of the press Objectivity/Subjectivity

Newspapers as material/resources Linguistic or discourse analysis Sociocultural analysis

Characteristics of News Analysis

Genre study Comparative analysis Analysis of aesthetics of news

Characteristics of News Analysis

Photo/Graphic analysis Typography analysis Design and Layout

Business aspects Monopolies & Ownership Advertising Globalisation of news / Diversification

Common Activities/tasks

Writing activities based on forms Letters to the editor Obituaries Front page design/redesign Collective productive work

‘Making the News’ Unit

Context: English philology 2nd & 3rd year Theory / practice orientation Students prior knowledge Equipment available / ways of working Group work / team assignment approach

Information Technology (IT) Teaching Computer literacy Word processing skills Design and layout Manipulation of text & graphics Research: Internet and CD ROM

Computer Literacy

Diskettes

Hard drives

‘Zip drives’

Printers and their features

Scanners

Backups

Default settings

FTP and email attachments

Platforms (Mac and PC)

Word Processing Skills

Opening and closing a file Cut and paste Spelling and grammar checking Inserting graphics and textboxes Font, size and headings Using newspaper columns Using newsletter templates

Microsoft Word Word Perfect

Design and Layout

File Text Font (style,size,

colour) Justification Graphic

Cut and paste Import / Export Tracking and kerning Borders and shading Captions Design & layout

Common Terms

Design & Layout

Microsoft word / Corel WordPerfect

Desktop Publishing Programs

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Publisher

PageMaker 6.0Adobe PageMaker

Microsoft Publisher

Manipulation (Graphic and Text) Software “Off-line”

Adobe PhotoShop

Corel Paint House

Microsoft Image composer

Paint

Printing quality

Pixels and densities

Manipulation vocabulary

Scanning, selecting, saving images

Manipulation (Graphic and Text) Software “On-line”

Internet graphics web sites

Clip art (on and off-line)

Searching and saving from web pages

FTP and zip drives

Email attachments

Compression and decompression

Journalism Teaching

Process-product

Roles

Organisation

Deadlines

Parts of a magazine/newspaper

Linking product to audience

Premiere issue - editorial

Allocation of space

Writing Issues

Feature articles Hard news Soft news "Fillers" Columns vs. Editorials Interviewing

techniques

Criticism vs. Reviewing Ethics / Gendered

Language Editing copy Language issues Proof-reading Writing headlines

Observations & Issues

Evaluating the process & product

Specific Student Issues:

Group interaction

Group sharing

Plagiarism

Derivative works

Creativity

Graphical aspects

Overnight workers

Design and Layout of Text and Graphics Program vs. Students Graphical components Access to technology "Seductive" works Creativity of language Mainstream vs. Alternative models

Curriculum Issues

Content blocks Motivation Aims of education Alternative evaluative techniques Curriculum evaluation Dealing with group problems Student autonomy Participation as ‘democratic citizens’

Some Issues for Educators1. Are the obvious and genuine rewards of working

toward a personal/group project sufficient reasons to do “battle” with the other more complex aspects of doing DTP in the ELT classroom?

2. What does “success” mean in projects of this kind?

3. Would a project utilising communication and information technologies (CIT) perform better using integrative aspects in the reform curriculum - e.g., In the establishing of a school newspaper?

questions comments

clarification confusion

further info

help!!!