I know that this is a bit far from the more erudite aspects of the forum, but I thought that it's useful information.

For those who would like to make large classroom rule posters, here's how;

Download Poster Forge, a freeware poster making (PC only unfortunately) program from,
www.ronyasoft.com/products/poster-forge/download.html
This will automatically divide an image across more than one sheet of paper to produce large posters.

1. Download the "Challenging_Students_Signs.pdf" from this website,

2. Use Adobe Reader to open it,

3. Scroll down until you see the image of a poster you might want to use,

4. Left-click on the image to select it (you'll see it darken a bit), right click on the image, choose the "Copy Image" menu item,

5. Open your favorite graphics program, (I use GIMP - it's a free, open-source version of photoshop). Open a new 8 1/2 x 11 image,

6. Paste the image you copied in step 4 onto your blank image,

7. Use the cropping tool to reduce the image to the outlines of the poster,

8. Save the image as a .jpg file,

9. Open Poster Forge, open your saved image into Poster Forge,

10. Follow the steps required within that program to print a poster. It's pretty self-directing.

It works great!!

Cheers,
Dan Davidson

Thanks. Great tip!

David Sours
Jacksonville, OR

This website does the same thing, but is web-based, so it works with any computer.

www.blockposters.com/

If you would like to download a free editable page to create your classroom rules you can download it from this page kayleeseducationalstudio.weebly.com/free-stuff.html. You can also download a page with the rules already created.

Cool! thanks for sharing.

Susan floyd
WBT Intern
2011-12