True Colors: A Follow-Up to Bring It Day
Thank you to all who attended Bring It Day. Let’s make the most of the last few weeks of school, and get started on making real changes to our product and our process in 2014. You received a number of handouts created by our favorite Tracey McNulty about editorial leadership. Below are links to True.. read more →
It’s Teacher Appreciation Week!
Show your advisers some love! Check out Facebook for photos of these cool adviser gifts. Click on the links below for the free printables. If Advisers Were Flowers Thanks A Latte! TEA-rrific Adviser Label Straw Tags for EOY Party read more →
May 1 is this week!
We made it to the end of April! Go us! Below is your final task list to prepare you for yearbook distribution while it’s still April. Countdown to May 1_Week of April 29 read more →
Inching Closer to May 1
Here’s the third installment of our Countdown to May 1. The more you prepare now, the better off you’ll be at the end of the year. Because face it, if you think you’re unmotivated now, wait until the end of May! Countdown to May 1_Week of April 22. read more →
Week 2 of Our Countdown to May 1
As promised, here’s a second list of tasks designed to get you ready for Yearbook Distribution Day. In April. Countdown to May 1_Week of April 15 read more →
Design Portfolio Assignment
The books are done. D – O – N – E!!!!!! Woohoo! And guess what that means? We can start working on the next book!?! (This is Kara’s favorite time of year!) To get you started on your 2014 masterpiece, I suggest you begin building a design portfolio. You can do this as a class,.. read more →
Countdown to May 1 Begins
Face it, May is crazy, crazy, crazy . . . it’s testing time, supplement time, senioritis time . . . it’s a bizarre time of year. So to help you prepare, Pam and Kara have generated a weekly task list to help you and your staff get ready for distribution. In April. Here’s the list.. read more →
Time to Write Your Colophon
A colophon is the statement, placed at the end of the yearbook, recording the names of the staff and printer, book specifications, size of the edition, and other information about the production of the yearbook. It can be as elaborate or simple as you want. It’s important to include a colophon in your yearbook as.. read more →
Design Your Index
Hhere are a few tips for designing your index: 1. As you are editing your index entries, remember that all proper nouns should be included. That’s all clubs, sports teams, class name, everything . . . even Harry Potter and Nikki Minaj. 2. Before you begin flowing index entries onto the pages, check your ladder... read more →
Coverage in Your Index
Now’s the time to brainstorm and to collect coverage for your index. From Thomas Jefferson HSST 2012: This index spread is a typical example of what yearbook staffs do. Where the index letters — ie A or B — appear, there’s a candid photo and a quote from a student who hasn’t been covered yet... read more →
Crowd Source Your Yearbook
As a follow-up to the TJ editors’ presentation at last week’s fall workshop, we are posting a copy of the powerpoint. Enjoy! Two Points of Clarification from Erinn Harris, the adviser at TJ: 1) To post the non-buyers list on Facebook, I print out a PDF of the non-buyers list from eBusiness, then export the PDF as JPEGS. From.. read more →
Take Advantage of eShare
Now that you can customize your eShare code and keep that code forever, we encourage all of you to take advantage of this free service. And did you know that those of you who use eDesign can transfer images directly from eShare into your eDesign library? That’s a reason to get started, right? For those new to.. read more →
Interrupting is rude. Or is it?
Yearbook staffs use spread templates and mod libraries to create a consistent look and to make the staff’s job easier. Unfortunately, the audience is often bored when spread after spread is the same spread or similar templates, page after page. To break up the visual monotony, some yearbook staff’s have started using interrupter spreads. You.. read more →
Folios are your friends.
Back in the day (as you teenagers like to say), the folio was always the same. On the left-hand page, it listed the section. On the right-hand page, it listed the spread topic. While folios are often section and spread topic, they are not limited to that. Folios are now a place to include more coverage.. read more →
Quick Review for Theme/Concept
As promised, here is a PDF version of the beginning of the Theme/Concept lecture Kara presented at YearbookNV 2012. This PDF can serve as a checklist for the theme/concept elements you must include on your cover, spine, endsheet and title page. Why take notes when you can find the same information on the internet, right?.. read more →
Fill Out Critique Forms Now
Feedback is good, right? Most of us strive to improve our yearbooks, little by little and bit by bit, and feedback is an important part of that process. Kara and Pam suggest joining scholastic journalism organizations and getting your books critiqued. Here are three organizations to join: Columbia Scholastic Press Association = cspa.columbia.edu Deadline = June.. read more →
Bring It Day = May 19
Bring It Day is a workshop for 2013 editors, up to four editors and an adviser per school. May 19, 2012 @ Westfield HS from 9 am – 2 pm One registration per school. To register, go to www.tinyurl.com/BringItDay2012 At Bring It Day, we will focus our attention on WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT and we’ll.. read more →
Designing Pages with Club Photos
It’s that time of year. High-school yearbook staffs are turning their attention to the reference pages, which include the club photos, sports team photos with scoreboards as well as the index. Please keep these ideas in mind as you design: 1) Don’t crop a square into a horizontal space. Some schools have started making the.. read more →
7.31.12 NV Begins
“If you love yearbook enough to be an editor, NV is the perfect place for you.” –Allie Berube, Oakton Y’all, Allie speaks the truth. If you care enough about your yearbook to visit this site, you need to go on and get yourself signed up for Yearbook NV: July 31-August 3. Click here to check.. read more →
QR Codes: Use Them While People Recognize Them
QR Code = Quick-Response Code They’re everywhere: on advertisements, in magazines, in Yearbook Discoveries. You take a picture of the QR code with your phone, and with a little internet magic, that code will take you to digital content on the web. QR codes link print media to digital media with your smartphone. The Above.. read more →