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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Last month’s tragic earthquake in Haiti will no doubt be a memorable news event that many yearbook staffs will localize and cover in one form or another in this year’s book. One Walsworth school in Memphis will really get an outstanding chance to do that, thanks to the wonderful story and ambitious philanthropy of a couple seniors.
Cort Gatliff and Christian Kauffman from the Memphis University School have started a program called The Water Cycle, in order to raise money to build 10 wells to provide fresh water for people in Haiti. To help raise the money, Gatliff and Kauffman are planning on biking 2,700 miles across the country during March.
Every year, many teachers are thrust into circumstances where they become yearbook advisers or they take over publications staffs with little or no journalism background.
Fortunately, there are various colleges and universities that offer online journalism courses, so these advisers can add to their education. The following blog post by Julie Dodd at the JEA Mentoring website offers a great summary of some of these online courses.
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