Imagine sitting at your computer and taking a virtual tour of the Louvre Museum in Paris, or the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. When you see a particular work of art, you can simply click on it to zoom in and get a closer look. Or, you can click on the small text button in the window, and read about the history of the artist and his works.
Idea File Magazine Winter 1996, Volume 6, Issue 2
From the category archives:
Winter 1996
After 32 years in the classroom H.L. Hall is still “alive, awake, alert, and enthusiastic.” In fact, he’s downright spunky.
It is his spunk and energy that inspire literally thousands of journalism students and advisers across the country each year. That, coupled with a sizable amount of knowledge, has also earned him the title “Mr. Yearbook” from his colleagues and those he teaches.
With the trend in yearbooks moving toward less copy, strong captions for the pictures play a more important role than ever before. Today’s captions answer the important 5Ws and H questions (Who?, What?, When?, Where?, Why?, and How?) for the reader instead of a brief identification of the subject and an obvious description of the action. Captions report on behind-the-scenes information to supplement, not repeat, the body copy.
When Evan Fetter, editor-in-chief of the University of Tampa’s Moraccan, got started on the 1995 book, he wanted to do some restructuring. But rather than use his power as editor to take over the decision-making process, he decided to give others a say in the matter.
It’s time to send for the counselor!
That’s where I was two years ago. It was January and my staff still had not jelled. Not jelled? That’s putting it nicely. They were screaming at each other. Nobody liked anybody and the yearbook room on work nights was a miserable place to be.
