Captions play a major role in making educational videos accessible to all and are known to benefit a wide range of learners. However, many educational videos either do not have captions or have inaccurate captions. Prior work has shown the benefits of using crowdsourcing to obtain accurate captions in a cost-efficient way, though there is a lack…

Historical aspects of the founding and early development of the "Journal of School Psychology" are discussed. Emphases are placed on the first decade of the journal, the factors in its founding and development, persons who have served as editors and members of the editorial boards and corporate leadership, and the journal's changing formats. The…

Shows how to use a proportion wheel as an aid to copyfitting a manuscript. (GW)

Discusses the current convention of putting only one space between sentences. Outlines reasons why existing reasons for only one space are not valid. (RS)

A how-to manual for people interested in the mechanics of newspaper production, this book was produced by the editors of a small town newspaper. Chapters about content, printing, typography, pasteup, design and layout, advertising, circulation and distribution, financial matters, and deadlines contain practical discussions of details such as what…

Provides a number of tips useful to the high school staff planning, researching, and writing the yearbook. (RB)

Suggests a new method of internal justification for cold type and shows how to use it in student publications. (RB)

Presents a list of general qualities that might turn a good yearbook into a great one. Discusses photojournalism, visual elements, editing concerns, personalized coverage, and broad general concerns. (SR)

Argues that for a quality yearbook to be produced the high school editor and art director must work together. (RB)

A brief introduction outlines a general print product planning, production, and distribution process which is followed by explanations of 26 print process concepts with references to the ideas of experts in the field. The alphabetically-arranged concepts include audience, brochures, content, disclaimers, editing, format, grammar, halftones, inks,…

This report discusses the graphic strategies available to editors for positioning the day's news. The purposes of the report are: (1) to introduce those in charge of designing the newspaper page to the structural approach to design (the structural approach is defined as incorporating horizontal and vertical structures in the available spaces,…

This handbook offers guidance to a person with written material to be reproduced and prepared for mailing. It provides tips on the preparation of copy for the printer, proofreading suggestions, preliminary ideas for design and format, hints for selecting paper and type style, information on printing and binding, and suggestions for mailing. (TJ)

In this brief interview Ben Brodinsky, educational editor and consultant, states that good education publications incorporate both strong content and interesting layout. He notes that education writers and editors are frequently not as familiar as they should be with their audiences' needs and interests. (DS)

Argues for the analyzing, studying, and describing of text pages as configurations of columns and lines and as constallations of alphabets. (FL)

Proposes that scholastic journalists should not shortchange the importance of words under, beside, or below photographs. Notes that in-depth cutlines and captions for scholastic publications and photographs can help hook the reader into the feature on the page; extend the visual coverage of a photograph's content; and give readers specific…