Word Processing Lesson – Where’s the Party?: Text and Graphics II

Goal
To develop writing and publishing skills

Objective
Learners will use the features of a word processor to develop invitations to a celebration, incorporating both text and graphic elements

Skills
Using a word processor as a creative tool; inserting a picture into a word processing program; basic desktop publishing; proof reading and editing skills.

Prerequisite skills
Basic word processing skills, manipulating fonts. Subdividing a document and creating layouts using tables.  The more learners are able to do with the word processing software, the more creative they can be with this project.

Time
About 2.5 hours

Related Activities
Make a Newsletter (columns, graphics and section breaks)

Instructor’s Note
Our classes enjoy creating graphics of their names—some students did acrostics, some used tables to lay out the information, others used Word Art to design their names and wrote several paragraphs underneath, and some brought in clip art to illustrate their writing.

Activity

Have students decide on an event that they would like to plan in the near future.  Discuss the type of event that they will be planning.  The event may be a baptism, birthday or school function for example. Using a combination of clip art, word art, auto shapes, different font sizes and styles to create an Invitation Card to a fun event.  You may instruct students how to layout their designs using invisible tables, columns or by subdividing a page.

 

Follow-up Activity
Have students save the invitation for next weeks class.  They may use the Invitation for next week’s mail merge activity.