This video is to show how to use Microsoft Excel to make posters for the classroom.
First, you just open a blank Microsoft Excel document. Then, go to file, page set up, make sure you are on the page tab, where at scaling adjust to change that to 200. Then click margin’s tab, want to change all the margins to .5 and then we want to change the headers to zero. Click OK.
In the percent view, we want to change that to 50%. Now, you will notice some lines here. Each rectangle, now represents an 8 ½ by 11 inch-sheet of printer paper. So, if I work in these first four rectangles right here, I can produce a poster that is 17 inches by 22 inches.
I can use clip art to do some titles, I am going to make it pretty big, stretch it out, grab it and drag it over here. I am going to stay within these four rectangles I can insert clip art and again , I will just drag it to my poster wherever I want it.
I can insert a textbox and want to change that font because it is kind of small. Good, stay smaller type first. You just kind of play around with it and get it like you want it and the textbox you can double click on that line and some colors and lines if you do not want the line, you can get rid of it. We change the color of the line and the width and style.
Yeah, you can do all of these things that you normally do in Word Processor or with textboxes, and I can set a border around my whole poster if I just highlight all of these rectangles and go to format cells and click on the Border Tab and I can do an outline and I can make that a certain color and then, when I just click the preview button, you can see each page and how it cuts off. So, that they overlapped a little bit and when you print it out, you can tape or glue it together to make that 17 by 22-inch-poster.
Here is one that I made for a classroom display, now I mean, the page break preview right now. So, you can see everything. This is a poster that I would hang on the wall on our poetry unit. The different things that we learn from poetry unit and then, around that poster, I can then hang student work to give examples of all of these things that we have learned in our poetry unit.
Another examples, students might do after learning about the Revolutionary War. You might help students make posters to illustrate something that they are going to presents and here is one that just has use some clip art to super impose George Washington space over Uncle Sam and to make a continental army poster.
So, when you print them out. They just come out in four sheets paper. You cut them or fold them. I usually just fold them and tape them together and it makes a nice poster. Run it through the laminator and did you cost you anything but little of time and few sheets paper.
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