This Is our Village

Sunday, November 12, 2017

WANT CAPTIONS? WE'LL GIVE YOU CAPTIONS!

Poor Dave Israel. He complained that the captions for the photos in his article "Dome of Light" were missing, and he is right, we missed the ball at the Reporter on that one. They would have helped a lot. But we may have the solution, discussed last night, and our CAM, Donald Foster, helped with some refinements. We'll put Dave's articles on very technical subjects in comic strip form and use those little balloons for captions. And every once in a while (this was Donald's suggestion) we will leave the balloons blank for the reader to fill in. This could even be done as a kind of Q & A: See if you filled in the balloons correctly; answers on page 17. We are a little afraid to run this by Joy Vestal—in fact, Donald has skipped town today. He and Chris are headed for the Brazilian jungles for a week. From one jungle to another....

3 comments:

  1. Wait till you see this actually done in a forthcoming Reporter. I'm thinking more and more with the Q & A that it might be a good teaching tool that could be used beyond helping explain the intricacies of your technical articles, Dave. Examples:

    1. Driving out the Haverhill gate and going south on Haverhill, can you make a right on red?
    2. During what hours is UCO open on Fridays?
    3. Who has a regular column in the Reporter on safety concerns?

    We need a cartoonist, however. Bob Rivera, are you there?

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