Welcome to a new training video featuring Mike Taylor, CJE, Jim Jordan and Sabrina Schmitz, CJE. In this session, they delve into the intricacies of using grids to enhance your projects in InDesign. If you’ve ever felt lost when someone mentions using grids in design, this tutorial is here to demystify the concept and help…
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Incidental Recruiting vs Active Yearbook Recruiting With Brian Wilson Brian Wilson, adviser at Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto, California, focuses specifically on incidental versus active recruiting. He emphasizes the importance of promoting the yearbook within the school community. Wilson suggested various strategies to increase visibility and engagement, such as encouraging students to find…
Yearbook Boot Camp is here! Last month, we showed you how to run your own boot camp. This month, we’re providing five video lessons that will get your yearbook staff ready for a great year. In the first four training videos, yearbook experts Mike Taylor, CJE, Sabrina Schmitz, CJE, and Jim Jordan are joined by…
We’re all finding our new normal right now. There’s no playbook for how the yearbook should respond to a global pandemic that cancels schools for weeks or even months. This is a time that requires us to make our own playbook, and that’s just what the Lyman High School yearbook staff has done. Like almost…
Schools all over the country are bringing augmented reality to their yearbooks this spring through Walsworth’s Yearbook AR app. However, learning the AR technology and creating interesting content is just the first step. Now, many yearbook staffs are starting to take the next step of promoting this exciting new feature. The yearbook staff from Braden…
After nine months spent creating a yearbook, the staff at Timber Creek High School in Fort Worth, Texas wasn’t done. Staff members were filmed while reflecting on various aspects of yearbook, then those interviews were edited together to create a powerful video about their recently finished 2017 yearbook. Over the span of 11 minutes, students…
Here’s a fun video sent to us from the yearbook staff at Riverside Poly High School in Riverside, California. With the 2017 yearbook recently completed, the staff sat down to explain exactly what yearbook has meant to them this year, and during their time in high school. You can watch it below. Videos like this…
The yearbook staff at McKinney High School in McKinney, Texas, has given a late boost to their book sales this year, with the help of a fun, well-produced video that promoted this year’s yearbook theme and went viral around school. The McKinney staff created a commercial that aired at the end of MHS1, the school’s…
Many thanks to Jessica Young, MJE, the yearbook adviser at Orange Glen High School in Escondido, California, for sharing this wonderful story reinforcing just how valuable yearbooks can be. Young was recently contacted via Facebook by someone looking to track down a decade-old Orange Glen yearbook. Anybody who has worked on a yearbook staff knows,…
Early on, the yearbook staff at Northumberland High School in Heathsville, Virginia, knew they wanted to try using augmented reality with Aurasma in their 2016 book. The catch was, everyone involved knew 2015-16 would be a hectic year. A young staff was working with new yearbook adviser Mike McCormick for the first time. It was…