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Evan Blackwell

Post image for Laurens-Marathon staff lets you know what yearbook is about in video of the week

Today’s Yearbook Video of the Week comes from the staff at Laurens-Marathon High School in Laurens, Iowa, who crafted a nice one-minute commercial to explain what the yearbook means.

The cool thing about this video is its simplicity – a well-done montage of students each expressing their thoughts on what they think the yearbook is.

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The significant role that yearbooks play in recording a school’s history is certainly a point of view that we love to emphasize here at the Yearbooks Blog.

Here is an article from writer Elizabeth Pinkerton of the Elk Grove Citizen in Elk Grove, Calif., which discusses the same ideas.

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Be sure to check in with the Blog and Walsworth Live later this week when school principals from all over the country come to Phoenix for the annual national convention for the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP).

Find out what’s happening on the NASSP exhibit floor, who’s coming through the Walsworth booth and other news.

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In this week’s yearbook Twitter update, we found more fun, interesting stuff and have a question.

We get an intriguing theory on the ramifications of smiling in your yearbook picture, and we’re left asking ourselves what exactly “chavvy” is?

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Post image for A fun look at yearbook photos of the Oscar nominees

The Academy Awards are this weekend, and ABCnews.com decided to have a little fun by creating an image gallery with old yearbook photos of this year’s nominees.

Who was a cheerleader in high school? Who was on the soccer team? Who said they wanted to be “a preacher?”

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Post image for Fun stuff with the yearbook video of the week from Kaneland High

The yearbook video of the week as we roll into March comes from the yearbook staff at Kaneland High School in Maple Park, Ill.

You should be able to spot right away that the guys involved in the making of this commercial for the Kaneland yearbook seemed to have a good time. And, they really seemed to spread their dramatic wings!

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It has been a pretty memorable year in the way of current events. There’s been several iconic news stories you will probably want to cover in the yearbook – Michael Jackson, Tiger Woods, Haiti, the Winter Olympics – just to name a few.

Covering these events properly means you need images that capture those moments and there are several services available, some of which are outlined here at walsworthyearbooks.com.

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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.

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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

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Post image for Yearbook video of the week from Nashville Christian

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.

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