Week #6 Classroom Newsletter Project Videos

Part 1

My audience is going to be parents and students for my newsletter.

My newsletter is going to be a "Here's What Happening..." for the boys and girls club that I work at. I can introduce myself as the new(ish) Art Coordinator and show some stuff that the kids have been doing in the art room. Then I will also lay out upcoming activities and fundraisers.

Part 2

Building a newsletter

Holding the option button as you place text fills in the text that fits in a given area and then saves the remainder of the text to fit into the next frame area.

Wrap text around images and graphics

Go to "Typography" and then "Text Wrap"... from here you can make text fit in a square, overlap, underlay, weave through text, etc.

Create a layout with text and graphics

Have we already watched this video? I remember the graphic... The video mostly just talks about basics, like making a frame and cropping and placing pictures. The thing I think is helpful to remember is that "W" is the command to see the preview mode.

Part 3

Multipage Document (Navigating Pages)

I haven't worked with multiple pages yet so I wanted a crash course on multiple pages. I learned that if you pull down the Windows tab you can select "Pages". From this window you can add new pages (Which do not need to all be the same size) and move pages around. Also the number of pages in the document is in the bottom left corner similar to a word document. This will just be helpful so I don't get lost in the pages.

Master Pages

I also watched the video on Master Pages on this same page. I had no idea what Master Pages were so I figured I should watch it. The Master Page is a page where you can add things that you want to appear on every page, such as a header or footer. I could definitely use this to put a footer and page numbers on my pages.

Get Around in InDesign

I just thought this would be a good refresher before getting back into InDesign. This video is mostly just an overview of the program. I must be starting to get slightly more comfortable with InDesign because there wasn't much new information here for me. It's good to refresh the basic's anyways, All panels can be arranged on the screen if you would like extra ones and then to reset to the default you just click "reset Essentials" in the top right corner. Hopefully this just makes me more comfortable and I can set up the editing tools that I use most in a convenient way.