Sandra’s ICT Blog

Okai i would consider myself a little bit of a ‘newbie’ in regards to the program Microsoft Publisher. According to Mark the program can be used for the creation of brochures and most importantly! autobiographies! lol. From my limited experience on publisher in my ed1113 class (seeing as i dont have the program at home) i think the program would have a number of great implications for classroom students. For a number of reasons i think that i would prefer to use Microsoft Publisher with my students rather than word based on Publisher. Firstly Publisher tends to offer layout guides as well as customisation of layout, which would extend my future already computer literate students (because lets face it the youth today have taken to computers and programs extremely well and fast) compared to Word. Simply, the program is easy to utilise for design purposes and ‘professional’ publishing purposes as well. Though the major drawback is simply that access of Publisher at home will be unlikely as was the case in my ed1113 class.

 Everything in regards to technology from my practical observations has been implemented with the purpose of extending the student. I think that a program like Publisher when used correctly will cater to extending the child’s computer literacy mostly in regards to the improvement of application design, a worthy ability indeed. I think that by utilising this program i will be able to set my future students on a path where they will be more able to present work of a higher standard through the Publisher program which will reflect on their professionalism in their work.

 Ed1113 is doing wonders for my confidence in regards to classroom technologies so much to the point that in my most recent practical i was confident enough to aid them in their powerpoint presentations and most importantly with their work on Publisher!