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Yearbook advisers from all over the country will make their way to Kansas City next week for Walsworth’s annual Adviser Academy, and the Yearbooks Blog will be there with daily updates.
From Monday through Wednesday of next week, you will be able to check in here for a look in at all the sessions, adviser interviews and more.
Yearbooks got some more good publicity this week. This time from an article in The Shaunavon Standard, a Canadian newspaper, which wrote a feature story detailing how popular the yearbook still is with schools in their community.
“The kids’ enthusiasm and joy when a yearbook’s done and when we get it back in September remains the same. People just want to relive the year,” yearbook adviser Gail Balfour told the paper.
With the summer workshop season now in full swing, we know there are yearbook staffs all across the country getting to work on next year’s book at camp.
The Yearbooks Blog wants to hear stories about what’s going on out at workshops this summer – fun tales from the road, the twists and turns of developing a theme and interesting stuff from the sessions and activities.
If you haven’t wandered over to the Idea File area in a couple days, take a look at this story that was posted last week by good friend of the Yearbooks Blog – retired Florida adviser Anne Whitt.
One of the best ways to teach the craft to all the aspiring journalists in your classroom is to encourage reading. Whitt provides a list of 20 or so autobiographies and memoirs that provide a historical perspective on journalism.
We spent some time earlier this week in the Yearbooks Blog talking about how much work yearbook staffs get done at the summer workshops they attend all over the country. But the summer camps are also good times!
Don’t just take our word for it. Take a look at this video below from Connor Brady, Chelsee Hill and Maria Richardson from Southwestern Randolph High School in Asheboro, N.C. They’re vets of Walsworth’s summer workshop in Myrtle Beach, and I think it’s obvious they enjoyed it.
Many of the yearbook staffs heading off to workshops this summer will be spending a lot of time brainstorming and developing a theme for their 2011 yearbooks.
The creative process behind a yearbook theme can be a fun one, but also a challenge. Fortunately, we’ve got some online resources that can help get you started.
Our trip around the Twitter-verse this week shows that yearbook signing parties are still raging.
Lessons learned include: be careful what you sign since you never know what the reaction will be and it never hurts to aim big – even with a potential future husband.
For those whose yearbook is still on the way in the weeks ahead, here are some more helpful tips to keep in mind when you hit the signing party.
This article from the website ehow.com emphasizes that the messages are best when they are heartfelt and funny.
What’s one of the first things you flip back to look at when you dig out your old yearbooks? Your picture? Sure. But most people I know first go back through all those signatures from their friends to see what hilarious words of wisdom were etched on the pages for posterity.
In this article from the Issaquah Press, Stacy Buell from Washington’s Skyline High School reminds readers that getting creative with your signature is important. After all, “How do you say goodbye, tell people you love them and summarize all of high school in one little note?”
The yearbook staff, and all the rest of the students, at Kalamazoo Central High School got to experience one memorable graduation ceremony this week when President Obama spoke at the school’s festivities – an honor the school earned for winning the White House’s Race To The Top High School Commencement Challenge in May.
The ceremony was held on the campus of Western Michigan University, and included an appearance by NBC’s “Today” show host Matt Lauer.
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