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In a little more than a month, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) will name the 2011 Gold and Silver Crown Award winners at their annual spring convention in New York City on March 16.
This year, more than 60 high school and middle school yearbooks were named Crown Award Finalists and CSPA invited all the staffs to submit two spreads of their best work to show off in a new publication called In Their Voices.
Check out this video that was posted on the Walsworth Facebook page from the yearbook staff at Ilwaco High School in Ilwacho, Wash.
Is there random hilarity going on here? Yes, there is. But there is also plenty of useful yearbook sales information packed into the 2+ minutes.
It’s been awhile since the Yearbooks Blog took a look back at an old celebrity yearbook photo, but we found one today on the website popcrush.com that we just had to share.
Any ideas who that Canadian singer is, based on her yearbook photo?
The latest yearbook video to get showcased here in the Yearbooks Blog comes from Rim of the World High School in Lake Arrowhead, Calif.
The video is a take-off of the funny series of commercials done over the last couple years for the Discover card, in which celebrities have trouble communicating over the phone about a charge mix-up. Putting a yearbook spin on a popular series of ads is one fun direction to go with your yearbook video.
James Ducat, the yearbook adviser at Walsworth customer school Beaumont High School in Beaumont, Calif., was recently honored as one of 10 regional finalists by the California League of High Schools in its 2011 High School Educator of the Year contest.
After being selected for the honor, Ducat was featured in a nice article by the local newspaper, The Press-Enterprise.
There’s only a few hours left in 2011, and there all kinds of year in review lists all over the internet wrapping up the last 12 months.
Your staff will probably want to include some current events coverage from the second half of 2011 in the yearbook. The top national and world news, entertainment and sports highlights are a great way to look back on the year.
Take a look at this very informative article from The News-Herald, an Ohio newspaper, about the current state of student journalism in public high schools.
The article quotes a new study from Kent State University, which concludes that while journalism has changed with the growth of the internet, the number of students interested in learning about it hasn’t really changed much at all.
Today is the 220th anniversary of the First Amendment taking effect in the United States, guaranteeing such rights as freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
Non-partisan organization 1 for All wanted to celebrate that, which is why today they are holding the “Free to Tweet” scholarship contest, and offering students between the ages of 14 and 22 a chance at 22 $5,000 scholarships.
Astronaut Mark Kelly will be visiting Mesa Verde Elementary School in Tucson, Ariz., today and he will be returning a special memento when he arrives.
Kelly took a copy of last year’s Mesa Verde yearbook with him into space on the final flight of space shuttle Endeavor, which he commanded from May 16 to June 1.
Take a look at this recent column by Gayle Faulkner Kosalko from The Times newspaper in Whiting, Ind., all about yearbooks and the interesting perspective they can provide on previous generations.
While doing some work at a museum, Faulkner Kosalko was able to go through yearbooks for local schools dating back to the 1940s, 1950s, even as far back as 1913.
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