Desktop Publishing

     In the past, Desktop Publishing used to only be programs like Word, a type of word processor. But now, it has evolved. They are no longer just words, they have to include graphics. For example, newsletters, brochures and flyers are a couple of different types of desktop publishing.
     This brings us to our newest assignment. Given our ideal classroom, how will we use technology to get the parents involve? The solution is that we will have to create a newsletter and a brochure of our future classroom (mainly focus on the grade level and the subject we want to teach) for the parents. We even did two classroom activities to help us understand the assignment better. The first activity was using "Inspiration" to brainstorm up ideas for the newsletter project. This program allows us to move things, extend the length of the idea, and so forth. One important thing that we should know when it comes to this program is RAPIDFIRE. Rapidfire is what allow us to add new ideas to the main idea or their subgroups. It is a simple program, with adorable graphics, so it is fun and easy to figure out.

There were also three Web 2.0 presentations: ZoHo, Flickr, and WikiSpaces. ZoHo is about making timed online tests or quizzes and that they have to be taken within a certain time frame. Flcikr is like a blog, but use only pictures instead of words. Not like that matter since a picture can speak a thousand words. The last presentation is about WikiSpaces, somewhat similar to Wiki (the one in charge of Wikipedia)... It is an online hosting site that allows anyone and everyone to edit it, unless the security it changed to allow certain people to edit or certain people not allowed to edit. This website is based on COLLABORATION!
     In the future, if I ever plan on using any of these web 2.0, I would most likely only to use the ZoHo. I do not find the others as useful to me since it seems more complicated for me to figure out. I like things simple.