Student editors will identify and correct errors on their pages. Students will identify and correct errors on finished pages. Students will actively assist the student editors by finishing other jobs such as typing, selling ads, or writing breaking-news stories. Learning a complex publishing program such as QuarkXPress is an on-going process for any design student. Since this lesson took place during the production of the April issue of the newspaper the students were already familiar with the program.
Students learn far more about the program and design from actually doing and asking questions.
They use each other and the teacher as a resource. Three days before the final newspaper deadline all editors must turn in a copy of their pages, otherwise knows as thumbnails. Class time is used to work on the paper and all staff members are expected to help the editors make the deadlines. A great deal of time is also spent before and after school. This work is done on the four Macintosh computers in the newspaper office.