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Walsworth’s Adviser Academy moved into its second day on Tuesday with half of the group in attendance making the bus trip up the road from Kansas City to Marceline/Brookfield, Mo., for a tour of Walsworth’s Printing and Bindery facilities.
The rest of the advisers stayed back at the Plaza Marriott to dive into more educational sessions. Topics on the morning agenda included classes on InDesign, Walsworth’s Online Design program, photojournalism and a round table for yearbook critiques.
Chronological yearbooks. Yearbooks with zero to seven sections. Yearbooks with only feature stories and photos.
These were some of the current trends in yearbook mentioned in the Adviser Academy’s Tad of Fad session on Monday afternoon. Led by Susan Massy, adviser at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Shawnee, Kan., and David Zinsmeister, adviser at Manchester High School in North Manchester, Ind., the session showed and discussed examples of new and timeless design trends.
Yearbook advisers at Walsworth’s Adviser Academy got some valuable tips on ways to keep the staff motivated on Monday afternoon in the session “Yearbook = Fun… or at least it should be.”
Walsworth sales rep Keith Hughey, a former yearbook adviser for seven years, outlined some strategies to help keep the yearbook students energized throughout the course of the year.
Advisers from as far as the East and West coasts arrived in Kansas City on Monday morning for the opening session of Walsworth’s annual Adviser Academy summer workshop.
The group was welcomed to town by Alex Blackwell, Walsworth’s director of yearbook marketing, who woke the crowd up by polling the audience to ask which advisers were new to the job, and which advisers were experienced vets working on their 11th yearbook or more.
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.
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.
I really have to hand it to Walsworth Publishing Company. At the JEA/NSPA convention their presence was amazing.
They gave an educational experience with their game and variety of yearbooks they had on display were beneficial to schools who are starting to incorporate design into their yearbooks.
Knowing that it is my last year in high school, and the convention in Portland was probably my last, I feel a new confidence because of the tools I have received from the convention and from my experiences in journalism in high school.
I wish to major in journalism, and I feel that I am ready for the next level. It is all thanks to my adviser Ms. Monroe and the JEA/NSPA conventions I’ve been to. Hopefully, one day I’ll be an instructor at a convention, or a keynote speaker.
Looking back on the convention and my notes, I feel a great combination of education and experience. The seminars and the surroundings were a perfect blend.
The weather was great and the teachers just out did themselves. I was very impressed with all of the effort that the JEA and NSPA officials put forth, the convention ran smoothly and was very informative.
Okay so after four days of non-stop journalism-filled action in an absolutely amazing city, I’m back at home, sitting in my room, which is barely lit by my dim computer screen in front of me. It’s 12:15 a.m. Yeah, it’s nice to be back with my family and friends, and I gave my mom the biggest hug after inching my way down the escalator at the airport.
But I already know that I’m going to miss these past four days… thank goodness I have my camera to trigger these memories, later on in life.
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