Week 3 Desktop Publisher vs. Word Processor

This week I learned a lot about the differences between Desktop Publishing and Word Processing. From what I have read and used, I think both are very unique but important tools to utilize.

            I feel that Word Processor is definitely a tool that can be utilized due to simplicity of the program.  With my certification being at the 5-9 level for Social Studies, this would be the most used program due to the fact that the activities that are performed in my classes often involve some form of typing papers. Often with No Child Left behind Mandates and with the State of Kentucky making the ACT test mandatory, Reading Comprehension is the biggest contribution that social studies has. For reading Comprehension, we can use Word Processor to be able to write about exactly what was read and put it into paragraph form. If we can write an essay about the comprehension of a subject that we have studied, the student’s ability to see the more defined details in multiple choice answers will only become stronger.

            With my previous paragraph, I stated how the simplicity of Word processor but did not mention how a Desktop Publishing Program for an assignment can make things more visually attractive. Many students are often amazed by technology and more often they are amazed by the images that can be created. In the State of Kentucky, the Sixth Grade is the grade that is primarily Geography. I would love to be able to make a weekly project that included illustrations of certain land masses, Diaspora of certain groups, etc, etc, What desktop publishing offers is an aide for visual graphics that can help students not only learn, but to also create a document that displays all items that the student can comprehend.

 

Now this is not an original work of mine, but this is the main idea that I was talking about for Geography. Note the different colors for the different land masses and other keys that can be put onto a legend that can tell the student reading the map exactly what is on the map that is important. To reiterate what I have stated before, children of the young adolescent age enjoy visual aides and often can rely on them as an assisting tool in learning.