ICT: The Importance of Design and Audience in Desktop Publishing

This lesson is aimed at 13-14 year olds. These resources do not contain examples of copyrighted magazine pages. Suggestions are given on the lesson plan as to the types of magazine and topics that could be used. Resources are the lesson plan, a starter that assumes students have already been taught terminology in previous lessons, a worksheet that encourages them to focus design and content considerations and a DTP rubric that they can refer to when starting their practical work. This is ideally the first half of a double where students can use the second half to develop their individual work. The lesson assumes the use of Publisher and a handy reference booklet is also included.