ID_Projects

Adobe InDesign is an application that you use when you want to have a lot of text. It is designed to allow the user to have more creativity with text effects and freedom with placing text. It is ideal for newsletters, books, and magazines. Personally, as with my students this was our least favorite application. To learn the application, students created three projects, but next year, I will need to come up with additional, more exciting ideas to get the students more excited about this application. However, in the end, the students did learn the learning goals that I wanted them to learn.


 * 1) Coupon: This was a good first assignment; students were introduced to the basic tools in inDesign and how to navigate around the interface. We completed one coupon in class together, then students had to recreate an actual coupon.
 * 2) Calendar: Each student was assigned a month and they had to design the calendar layout and color theme. When all the projects were assembled we ended up with a pretty nice calendars for the entire year. This was a good project to teach students how to use tables in inDesign.
 * 3) News Letter: Students had to design a newsletter and report about a current event. This was a good project because it forced students to go into depth about what was happening around them and really gain an understanding of the issues. Even after the projects were long finished, students continued to monitor what was going on with their topic.