Desktop Publishing

With today's computers and software, it's gotten much easier for anyone to create desktop documents. More and more people who have not had proper instruction on combining text and graphics in an effective way are publishing documents. As a result, there's a lot more bad design floating around out there.

The following websites may be beneficial in teaching your students to plan, create, and edit documents created with a word processor using readable fonts, alignment, page setup, tabs, and ruler settings as specified in the Texas Technology TEKS.

A Beginner's Guide to Word Processing

Word Processing Matching Activity
Printing Press
Word Processing Quiz 1
Word Processing Quiz 2

MS Word Standard Toolbar

In the district where I work, we also use http://www.learning.com/ in teaching the technology TEKS to our K-8 grade students.