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Create a newsletter		Level of difficulty: Basic
As an educator you could be required to create a newsletter for your fund raising efforts / the Science Club or perhaps a monthly school newsletter reporting on sports scores, house points, merit achievements, the Big Walk, etc. This newsletter will be distributed to the whole school - so it will need to be professional and well-designed. You would use Microsoft Publisher to create this newsletter.

Create your own newsletter - one which you will find useful. Alternatively, follow this example. To do so you would typically work through the following steps:

	Description	Resources
1	Start Microsoft Publisher	How to start Microsoft Publisher
2	Choose a publication type and design using the wizard: You will want to consider your target audience when you do this - are they parents or learners?	How to choose the publication type and design
3	Save your work: Remember to save you work regularly.	How to save a file
4	Select a font and colour scheme: If printing in black and white, select that option for your colour scheme.	How to choose font How to change the colour scheme
5	Type the newsletter
6	Use text overflow links: Text will sometimes not be able to fit in one text box - you will need to link it to a new text box.	How to connect and disconnect text frames
7	Insert new textboxes: If you want to add areas of text you should first create a text box.	How to insert new text boxes
8	Changing graphics: If printing in black and white, try to avoid colour graphics.	How to insert graphics
9	Group pictures and caption text boxes so that they stay together: You would do this if you want images to be associated with text.	How to group or ungroup objects
10	Delete unwanted pages	How to delete pages
11	Save your newsletter	How to save file
12	Print your newsletter	How to print a file

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