Noelle Chilson will not remember attending a summer yearbook workshop in July 2011. She was only three-and-a-half months old at the time. Noelle went because her mother, adviser Emily Chilson, thought workshop was so important that she loaded up Noelle and the Pack ‘n Play® and accompanied her students to the Northwest Yearbook Workshop in Tacoma, Wash.
Many people are probably familiar with the popular Price is Right game Plinko, where a puck is dropped down a pegboard and lands in a prize slot. The yearbook staff from Shawnee High School in Ohio created their own version of the game called YearBlinko.
Spring is a busy time for yearbook staffs and advisers. As you get closer to the finish line on the 2012 yearbook, the time to start preparing for the 2013 book is now. The newest issue of Idea File magazine is here, and it is filled with topics to help get you ready.
Our final day of school last year should have been an exciting day for our students at L’Anse Creuse Middle School–Central. However, for more than 50 of them, disappointment clouded the day.
A simple technique using color can make the subject of an image pop. When you want to enhance the focal point of your image, all it takes is a few easy steps.
As coverage of the school year is winding up, think about what would have helped your photographers this year, and consider creating a checklist for them for next year.
Create text and graphics in InDesign that have that fuzzy look like the embroidered letters you see on a letter jacket.
The keys to making any yearbook program run smoothly and minimizing work and stress involve organization and continuity, and this is especially true when you are faced with the added challenge of your staff meeting as an after-school club.
Successful teachers know their classroom should be an inviting place that aids learning. If your students are spending afternoons, nights and weekends in there also, as yearbook staff members often do, maybe your room should be more than that.
At our small, private all-girls school, Hanna Sacks Bais Yaakov in Chicago, the upcoming graduating class votes at the end of their junior year for the position of editor-in-chief. It sounded like fun to us, so we ran to sign up.
