Watching Walsworth reps in a poodle skirts.
Listening to a kid in a penguin suit do Born to Be Wild in the lip sync contest.
It’s another Camp Orlando summer yearbook workshop.
It’s another Dow and Becky Tate anniversary.
It’s how we roll.
Tuesday was the second full day at Walsworth’s Galveston workshop. With some hard work, the 2011 themes are starting to come together. It is great to see so many new yearbookers wanting to create a better book.
I love seeing kids get excited about the year ahead and creating the best yearbook their school has ever seen.
It’s always amazing to me to watch the progress that yearbook kids make during a summer workshop.
We instructors were pretty honest with our opinions of the themes presented to us this weekend at the Sonoma, Calif., yearbook camp. What I saw the various staffs working on today was an incredible improvement.
It is exciting to see the 2011 themes emerge as kids started their yearbooks at the Sonoma workshop. We tried something new this year where the staffs consulted with all three instructors at the same time to get theme feedback before developing it. As expected we offered varying opinions which provided lots of food for thought. Can’t wait to see what the final theme packets will look like.
So far most staffs are seeking to personalize their books more, and the themes are reflecting that. We are seeing more interest in covering as many students as possible and in covering not just the superstars but everyone.
Summer yearbook thoughts from the road, with a first stop at Walsworth’s yearbook camp in Sonoma, Calif., on Friday and Saturday.
After some fun lead by Walsworth area sales manager Howard Dusek that emphasized the importance of digging deep through interviews to find the unique stories on campus, we got down to the challenge of finding and perfecting that perfect theme/concept to drive the creation of each school’s 2011 yearbook.
So, popular social networking website Facebook was in the news this week when reports indicated that there were now approximately 500 million active users on Facebook each month.
That’s a pretty impressive number. And it gives us a good chance to remind you of a message that you’ve heard on this website before – that Facebook can be a very useful tool for yearbook staffs in generating a buzz about the book and building awareness about the product.
Here’s an interesting article from the Fort Madison Daily Democrat in Iowa. A 1912 Lawrence College yearbook was recently discovered at a senior living facility in Fort Madison.
The yearbook belonged to Carl Nelson, one of the area’s more historical figures for the more than 30 years that he taught music and marching band in the Fort Madison public school system.
New Jersey librarian Nancy Janow has a passion for yearbooks.
Janow has lived in South Orange for the past 25 years, and as she told the Maplewood Patch newspaper this week, she has been collecting yearbooks from local schools for the past 15 years.
Here’s a fun link to check out. The Picture Show blog on the NPR website recently ran a post and started a gallery on the history of yearbooks.
NPR traces back the origins of yearbooks to photographer George Warren in the mid-1800s.
You might think summer would be a slow time for yearbooks, but one look around Twitter will show you otherwise! People are still reading. Take a look…
@amyy96_: I just looked at my past yearbooks, all my yearbooks from Grade 3 to now. They brought tears to my eyes, especially my Grade 7 yearbook.
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