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As Technology Integration Specialists, we work with classroom teachers, helping them and encouraging them to integrate Technology into the core curriculum. A common complaint of these classroom teachers is that they “don’t have the time” to do technology projects, or cover the TA TEKS. Often it would take one or more sessions in the Lab just to get the students comfortable enough with the software to start on a project (not to mention the teachers’ comfort level)! Anyone who has tried to create a brochure or a greeting card in Microsoft Word knows how frustrating it can be. We discovered that Microsoft Publisher (which, unlike Print Shop or other desktop publishing products, is included with their Office package) does the hard work for the teacher! Publisher not only provides templates for hundreds of projects, but also teaches good design principles with various layouts, font schemes, and color schemes. Moreover, we discovered that students take to Publisher very quickly, and even very young elementary students are comfortable with the templates. On this space, we showcase ideas for using Microsoft Publisher to integrate technology into the core curriculum. We have presented this as a session at TCEA state conference and regional conference, as well as locally in our own district. All of these templates and ideas are free for your use under Creative Commons license (see below).