Week 2! August 24

Good Morning and Happy Monday! We are going to kick off the day by making sure that we are set to publish our "Ever Growing, Ever Changing Me" by the end of the class period -- tomorrow!  I know it takes a lot of work when there is a lot to format, many pictures to include and, of course, descriptive text to write.  While there is no official "blog post" today, lets get right to work on our InDesign document so nobody falls behind!

Your first task for the day is to ensure that you have done all the writing:

• Name at the top, quotes, headings and titles, some adjectives about yourself and then the main body text - first an indepth discussion of who you are right in the middle of the document.  Off to the right you need to discuss first your High School goals followed below by your plan to achieve them.  Lastly, at the bottom, is your chance to share some of your hopes, dreams and ambitions.  Be thorough in what you write - there is only one of you and what your interests, passions, background and more are will be interesting to those who care about you!  If you need some suggestions on what else to write, don't hesitate to ask me.

Your second task is to ensure you have 4 great images on your document that help tell a visual story/paint a picture of who you are.

• The main image in the center must be a picture of yourself! You should have a picture but if you need help, I can take a picture and send it to you.  That will be the central image on your printed document.  The other images are up to you but should either be of you or of things you discussed that are of great importance in your life.

Your third task is to adjust the look of the document - specifically, we are only changing background colors.  Do not change, move, alter the text boxes.  If you do, your assignment won't be done correctly and may not print properly which would not be good.  Remember, if you accidentally move a text box just hold down ctrl + z and the action will undo.

After confirming all of the above, read through your document and ensure that there are no spelling or grammatical errors!  Spelling and grammar errors demonstrate carelessness and you don't want anybody to make that assumption of you when they read your "Ever Growing, Changing Me"

Once you are happy with your document, the following is what you will do.

• Verify the format of your document.  In particular, be sure you text is no larger than 12 point font - if you didn't fill the columns, go back and think of what else you could write - you need to be thorough!
• Be sure your document is one page only and there is nothing outside the margins - an easy way to do this is hit w on your keyboard and change the zoom to ~25%
• Once you are satisfied with your document you will go to File > Export. It should automatically bring up a save window with PDF and Name your File "Chris Rubin Ever Growing Changing Me" and save into your home drive
• On the pop up window that follows, towards the bottom please change the jpeg quality to high
• You're all set!  We will then submit your file in Schoology together!