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Skousen, Jonathan – Currents, 1990
Guidelines for selecting the most appropriate typeface for school publication needs include determine the intended audience; decide which typefaces convey the goal, theme, or message; and select typeface for the time period the piece is meant to reflect. (MLW)
Descriptors: Design, Graphic Arts, Guidelines, Higher Education
Wozny, Lucy Anne – 1985
During the academic year 1983-84, Drexel University instituted a new policy requiring all incoming students to have access to a microcomputer. The computer chosen to fulfill this requirement was the Macintosh from Apple Computer, Inc. Although this requirement put an additional financial burden on the Drexel student, the university administration…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Educational Practices, Equipment Maintenance, Higher Education
Ryan, Ellen – Currents, 1991
Thirty-four suggestions for making college fund raising more effective are offered. The ideas focus on conserving what you have, getting and keeping extra income; finding creative donations; cutting travel and printing costs; bargaining with suppliers; using telephone, mail, and fax effectively; using creative staffing; and monitoring resource…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Creativity, Efficiency
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Cox, Dennis – Journal of Documentation, 1987
Outlines the history of the application of photographic and allied printing methods in libraries during the past 50 years. The benefits of reprints and micropublications to libraries and users are discussed, and the possible impact of computer output microfilm is examined. (19 references) (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Library Materials
Bell, Norman T.; Warner, James W. – Technological Horizons in Education, 1986
Discusses new possibilities that computers and laser printers offer instructional technologists. Includes a brief history of printed communications, a description of new technological advances referred to as "desktop publishing," and suggests the application of this technology to instructional tasks. (TW)
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Uses in Education, Editing, Educational Technology
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Current, 1984
Presents an activity for students (ages 5-6 and 7-14) to identify external characteristics of marine life and plants through printing (using homemade stamp pads). Includes procedures and list of materials, and printing ideas. (JN)
Descriptors: Animals, Art Activities, Botany, Elementary Education
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Danzer, Gerald A. – Social Education, 1991
Describes the first printed world map from 1472. Discusses the style development consisting of a circle of land surrounded by ocean and divided into three continents by water. Includes explanations of the ocean sea, continents, decorations, and locations, and the map's significance as a representation of a unified world view. (DK)
Descriptors: Allegory, Cartography, Christianity, Elementary Secondary Education
Middlesex County Vocational and Technical High Schools, New Brunswick, NJ. – 1985
A project was undertaken to establish a graphic arts printing program to help inmates of the county correctional institution develop marketable skills. Plans were formulated to combine remedial instruction with training in graphic arts and printing techniques. Job Training Partnership Act funds were used to purchase the equipment necessary to…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs