From the monthly archives:
The Spring National High School Journalism Convention in Portland is now less than two months away and JEA/NSPA announced some important updates this week for those who are planning on attending.
There are new design workshops and special training sessions available, which you can learn about at the NSPA’s Portland convention blog.
In the Yearbook Blog’s look around Twitter this week, we found one daughter taking a fond look back at her mother’s yearbooks from the 60s and some funny self-reflections. Enjoy!
@bostonrach: love looking at my mom’s HS yearbook from ‘66. back inside cover has bob dylan’s lyrics inscribed
The Yearbook Blog’s video of the week comes from the yearbook staff at Nashville Christian School.
This commercial for the yearbook that the staff placed on YouTube was their first attempt at making a promotional video and you’ll probably notice the similarity to a series of popular national TV commercials.
This week’s Yearbook Blog shout-out goes to Marissa Lienau from Seneca Middle School in Macomb, Mich., who this month was named the second $1,000 winner in Walsworth’s Student Scholarship Sweepstakes.
Marissa is still only in 8th grade, so the winning check from Walsworth is definitely an early jump on college for her and her family. Which is totally fine with them. In fact, according to Marissa, she’s already started thinking about her future ambitions.
In the Yearbook Blog’s continuing look at some of the most creative video work that was done this year to promote yearbooks, we go to Rawlinson Middle School in San Antonio, Texas.
The staff at Rawlinson did several commercials for the yearbook and posted them on YouTube. Here’s a sample.
The University of North Carolina has begun a new project this year to preserve the memories captured in the school’s old yearbooks online.
The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, based out of the Wilson Library, is now storing digitized versions of old UNC yearbooks, the Hellenian and the Yackety Yack, from 1890 through 1966.
In this week’s yearbook update from around Twitter, we found a little bit of everything – including 8th grade memories and even an interesting family admission.
@ Callisonannee Commenting that I talk too much is a waste of breath…I can open all my old yearbooks and confirm that in the teacher comment section 
Last week in the Blog, we passed along the story of the yearbook at Florida A&M University, which was being brought back by an ambitious group of students after a six-year hiatus.
This week there’s a similar story from the University of Maine, where the reformed yearbook staff has grown to 10 students and the yearbook The Prism is making a comeback for the first time in six years.
Yearbook staffs all over the country have been doing some creative, fun stuff making YouTube and Facebook videos to promote the yearbook this year.
For the rest of the school year, a couple times a month the Yearbook Blog will show off some of that awesome work by featuring the “yearbook videos of the week.”
Walsworth has revealed that its annual summer workshop for yearbook teachers – the Adviser Academy – will be held June 28-30 in Kansas City.
All the pertinent information and details can be found in the new 2010 Adviser Academy special section that has been launched on the Walsworth website, including a link to download a registration form.
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