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

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

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

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  1. Publish or Perish!!!Doing Desk Top Publishing in the EFL Classroom Jamie Fowlie Universidade da Coruña

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

  3. News Media in Education • English courses • Media studies • EFL units/activities • Our daily lives

  4. Characteristics of News Analysis • Newspapers as material/resources • Linguistic or discourse analysis • Sociocultural analysis • Ethics • Freedom of the press • Objectivity/Subjectivity • Propaganda • History of the Press • Subjectivity of readers

  5. 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

  6. Common Activities/tasks • Writing activities based on forms • Letters to the editor • Obituaries • Front page design/redesign • Collective productive work

  7. ‘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

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

  9. Computer Literacy Diskettes Hard drives ‘Zip drives’ Printers and their features Scanners Backups Default settings FTP and email attachments Platforms (Mac and PC)

  10. 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

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

  12. Design & Layout Desktop Publishing Programs Microsoft word / Corel WordPerfect Microsoft Publisher Adobe PageMaker

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Journalism Teaching The Lead Exclusive Story DeadLines Man Bites Dog Scoop

  16. Process-product Roles Organisation Deadlines Parts of a magazine/newspaper Linking product to audience Premiere issue - editorial Allocation of space

  17. 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 Writing Issues

  18. Observations & Issues • Evaluating the process & product

  19. Specific Student Issues: Group interaction Group sharing Plagiarism Derivative works Creativity Graphical aspects Overnight workers

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

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

  22. 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?

  23. further info questions comments clarification confusion help!!!

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