Newsletter with Adobe InDesign

Zoom link for all Kulzer's classes: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/93409950621

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards

  • 1. Empowered Learner -- Students leverage technology to an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goal, informed by the learning sciences.
  • 1a. Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
  • 1b. Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose and use/troubleshoot current technologies.
  • 1c. Student are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
  • 2. Digital Citizen -- Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that safe, legal and ethical.
  • 2a. Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
  • 2b. Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of copyright and sharing intellectual property.
  • 3. Knowledge Constructor -- Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
  • Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.
  • 4. Innovative Designer -- Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
  • 4a. Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving problems.
  • 4b. Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.
  • 4c. Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
  • 5. Creative Communicator -- Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
  • 5a. Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
  • 5b. Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
    • *All standards listed above are from the SRR Industrial Technology Standards document based on the ISTE standards.
    Adobe Indesign is the industry standard publishing software. Students will scratch the surface of Indesign and what it can do through this basic newsletter tutorial.

    Students are encouraged to go through all Adobe's tutorials to learn the true power of Indesign.

    For this project, students will follow Kamran Sharjeel's tutorial but will use their own text and photos/graphics. Click here to view the 12 minute tutorial.

    A few items to start off:
    To get your InDesign window to Workspace > Essentials Classic. (See screen shot here.)

    To ensure your placed images are high quality in InDesign, click on View > Display Performance > High Quality Display. (See screen shot here.)

    As you work, if you want to see how your design will look without the guidelines, click on View > Screen Mode > Presentation. (See screen shot here.)

    Students use InDesign to produce a Newsletter that includes:
  • 2 pages
  • A two-column layout
  • Headline/title text
  • At least 4 photos and/or graphics taken/made by the student
  • A shape used somewhere other than the headline/title bar


    • Evaluation:
    2 points -- Original text written by student (not placeholder text) (Check spelling and grammar!)
    2 points -- Quality of graphics/photos
    3 points -- Nice Logical layout including all bullet points above.
    3 points -- Followed Directions. Export as PDF file with student's name.

    10 points total










    local vid