The last meeting before the winter break we focused on the Publisher program and making greeting cards. I thought the boys might be a little reluctant to try this, but I was wrong. They enjoyed making cards and, with a few suggestions for personalizing them, they made several for special family members. I thought it was important that they make each card clearly individualized so that the recipient would know it was created just for him.To the right is one sample of a holiday card. Publisher formats the pages so that when it is folded horizontally and then vertically, all the pages are face up. This makes for a confusing bit of text boxes, as the students are typing the words in logical order but seeing them march up the side of the screen. This sample was printed on the black and white printer on accident, so I kept it and let the student reprint it in full color. (Don't tell anyone, though. All my students know that they must always click on Print Preview, to see that everything is perfect, because I never let them print twice. I just couldn't be a Scrooge and insist that he give a colorless card, so I kept the black and white copy for the blog.)
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