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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
Characteristics of News Analysis

 Newspapers    as material/resources
 Linguistic or discourse analysis
 Sociocultural analysis
     Ethics                        Propaganda
     Freedom of the press          History of the Press
     Objectivity/Subjectivity      Subjectivity of readers
Characteristics of News Analysis
 Genre study
 Comparative analysis
 Analysis of aesthetics of news
       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
Microsoft Word            Word Perfect

     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
Design and Layout
Common Terms
    File                   Cut and paste
    Text                   Import / Export
    Font (style,size,      Tracking and kerning
     colour)                Borders and shading
    Justification          Captions
    Graphic                Design & layout
Design & Layout
Desktop Publishing Programs

Microsoft word / Corel WordPerfect


              Microsoft Publisher


               Adobe PageMaker
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            Criticism vs. Reviewing
  Hard news                   Ethics / Gendered
  Soft news                    Language
  "Fillers"                   Editing copy
  Columns vs. Editorials      Language issues
  Interviewing                Proof-reading
   techniques                  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 Educators
1. 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    further info




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