Door
Tag Idea: Making Headlines
Submitted
by Vanessa Smith, Resident Assistant, University of Windsor
I used
these as my first door tag, with the floor theme "Making Headlines"
at the beginning of the year. They were a big hit. I could hear parents
reading the stories aloud and the entire family's laughter echoing down
the hallways. I'm still in love with this idea, which I have to credit
my Dad for, as he came up with it on a long car trip one day.
The door
tags were written like tabloid new stories- a large, ridiculous headline;
a grainy black-and-white photograph; and a story related to the headline.
I made four different templates- "Black Hole Discovered in Mac
Hall Laundry Room", "Bigfoot Spotted at the Thirsty Scholar",
"UFO Sighted Out Mac 7 Window", and "Term Paper Spontaneously
Combusts!" I wrote the wild stories, including false quotations
from made-up experts, and inserted students' names and other pertinent
information (program, hometown, age- whatever's allowed at your university)
in a slightly larger font within the story. The pages were printed out
on gray paper and taped to the students' doors for when they arrived
on campus.
Click
here for sample template