By Miranda Urbanczyk and Kyrah Bey Every year, the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association (MIPA) welcomes hundreds of students from all over the United States to participate in its annual summer workshop, held on The campus of Michigan State University. The workshop offers a variety of classes and skill levels to help students improve their journalism skills and … [Read more...] about Passing the advice: Stories of MIPA camp students
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Indesign for Newspaper Students Work to Improve Design skills
Podcast coverage of the MIPA 2016 summer workshop Indesign for newspaper class. … [Read more...] about Indesign for Newspaper Students Work to Improve Design skills
Advanced InDesign works on re-design
In addition to the basics from yesterday, the Advanced InDesign for Newspaper team is not looking back. This morning, they were given an example of a badly designed feature page, and they had to completely redesign it. From the headline to the selection of pictures, they had free reign to make it "jazzy." Reasons like this, and more, are why students like Catherine Habba … [Read more...] about Advanced InDesign works on re-design
InDesign for Newspaper moves onto Photoshop
The InDesign for Newspaper class instructed by Sara-Beth Badalamente switched software and began using Photoshop. Homework from the last night was reviewed and the students continued to work towards their one-pager due at the end of the week. The students learned a few more tips before switching to Photoshop. The morning session was a basic overview of what Photoshop is … [Read more...] about InDesign for Newspaper moves onto Photoshop
Yearbook designers perfect their skills
Advanced yearbook design instructor Lydia Cadena starts her class figuring out where everyone is at with InDesign. The students then dabble into some basic design as a refresher for the long summer. She continues with a list of do’s and don'ts of yearbook design. “I’m gonna show them how they can take different components--different parts of a page and modify them really … [Read more...] about Yearbook designers perfect their skills