Teaching Intro to Publishing

[Angstboy]

Hey hey first post! So in addition to slaving at prepress, I con unwitting students into selling their souls to the b1tch goddess that is prepress.

Any how, I got stuck teaching Intro to Publishing. Basically this course is split into two sections; Introduction to the Macintosh and Intro to Publisher on the PC. Yeah I know, odd mix right? Sooo.... I guess my question is what things should I really pound into their heads?

My intial thoughts are:
Stressing Organization
Folder Structure
Naming Conventions
Collecting Files
Basic troubleshooting on the Mac (force quit and the like)
RGB vs CMYK (Prolly won't get much into Color Management)
Resolution
The Joy and Pain of fonts

Any thing else come to mind as important topics?
Have any good links to basic info on Macs and prepress in general?

Thanks

Edited by: Angstboy on Sep 6, 2007 8:37 AM

[doubting_thomas]

This could probably be boiled down to the point that lay people could be taught the basic material:

http://americanprinter.com/mag/printing_best_pdfs/

Good luck with Publisher, since they probably won't let you teach them not to use it.

[Cory Smith]

you might want to go to a bookstore and check out both the intro to publisher and intro to OS X books, see what topics they cover..that could give you a good outline of what needs to be covered for beginners.