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The Art of Sneaky Teaching with Print Projects

You have found your way to the Art of Sneaky Teaching with Print Projects resource site. The purpose of this site is to provide ideas for those who teach Desktop Publishing. The site was created and maintained by Jerry Smith, a Business Education teacher at the Breathitt Area Technology Center in Jackson, KY. The materials are not lesson plans per se, but they can be used as the application and assessment parts of a lesson plan. Most of this material presented here was written for use in high school classrooms, however, it could be easily adapted for pre- and post-secondary students as well. I have taught these lessons with both Microsoft Publisher and Adobe Indesign. With very few exceptions to some of the rubric items, all the materials are platform-independent.

Some of the rubrics and project are better than others: What you see is an amalgamation of three years of trial, error, and imagination. These materials work for me. If you find a resource you don't like, either make it better or simply do not use it :) You should be very excited to be teaching Desktop Publishing. This class has the potential to be a bright spot in a student's day who otherwise plows through his or her other classes for no other reason than to receive a credit.

Any materials that are meant to be used together will have a red outline around them.

This site is written and maintained by Jerry Travis Smith

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