Facebook continues to be a fun way to see what all your friends and colleagues are doing and to stay in touch with former students and classmates, but it can also be an integral part of teaching and producing a yearbook.
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Imagine teaching some journalism history without giving a lecture. Imagine encouraging reading inside your classroom and out. Start this with a small bookshelf in your classroom, about 20 books about journalism, less than $100 to buy them, and a checkout system.
Being an adviser is a tough job, rife with tricky tasks for newbies. For those who made it through the first years, what would you go back and do differently – if you could?
Have you started thinking about the 2011 yearbook yet? The latest issue of Idea File magazine will get you in the mood. Valuable information on yearbook marketing and how to boost your sales, as well as book organization and workflow, is all packed into this issue. Be sure to check it out!
Regardless of how many times you have told your staff how to properly manage their document files, this duplication or similar confusion of files is bound to throw a wrench into even the most organized of staffs. Google Documents has a solution for this problem, and solutions for a myriad of others.
Every fall, our annual trip to the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association (MIPA) Middle School Journalism Conference proves to be a memorable experience. Everyone involved – the students, their parents, our school and me – benefits in numerous ways.
One of the most important reference materials for a well-run yearbook is a detailed handbook for staff members – a manual that provides answers to the basic questions they will encounter. In the spring, the outgoing yearbook staff should be reviewing the manual and starting the new one for next year’s staff.
One of the most important tasks you will tackle in wrapping up this year’s yearbook and getting ready for next year is organizing the yearbook room. This list of tasks will help get you headed in the right direction.
As the school year and the work on this year’s yearbook is winding down, advisers can already start their preparations for next year. One great way to get ready for next year is by attending a yearbook workshop. You can see all of Walsworth’s workshop options in our updated Workshop Central section, with listings broken down by month.
Whether you are still wrapping up this year’s yearbook, or you have already submitted all the pages and you are looking ahead, here is a list of crucial year-end tasks to think about.
