Camp Carolina 2020 Schedule
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(All times listed below are Eastern time.)
Tuesday, July 28
8-9:50 a.m.
New Adviser Training Part 1 (password: yearbook) – Tiffany Cavicchia and Jim Channell
New advisers will learn how to handle staff organization and deadlines, grading and curriculum, principles of layout and design, and budget/marketing to get started on the right foot for the first year of teaching yearbook.
10 a.m.
General Session: Welcome – Ken Schwartz
10:15-11 a.m. (Breakouts – Choose from the choices below)
- How to Take Better Photos – Alex Wilson
Learn tips and tricks that your entire staff can use to easily improve your photos.
- Editorial Leadership Part 1 – Tiffany Kopcak, CJE
Send your editors to this session to learn how to lead their peers by establishing a plan for success. Students will discuss team-building, meeting deadlines, and motivating staff members to work together to meet goals.
11:15 a.m.-Noon (Breakouts – Choose from the choices below)
- Photo Editing Options – Photopea – Alex Wilson
Learn ways to edit your photos in different platforms, including Photopea.
- Editorial Leadership Part 2 – Tiffany Kopcak, CJE
Continued. Send your editors to this session to learn how to lead their peers by establishing a plan for success. Students will discuss team-building, meeting deadlines, and motivating staff members to work together to meet goals.
- Finding Great Design Ideas – Missy Green
Get inspired to make your page designs new and exciting.
Noon-1 p.m. – Break for lunch
1-1:45 p.m.
General Session: Developing Your Theme Package – Tiffany Kopcak, CJE
Having trouble finding or developing your theme? Join us to brainstorm ideas and work with experts to find the perfect theme. **Schools that don’t need help with theme should use this time to work together.
2-5 p.m. (Breakouts – Choose from the choices below)
- Basic Online Design Training Part 1 – Ken Schwartz/Jim Channell/Susie Gillam
Beginning yearbook students will learn to use basic tools to create spreads in the Online Design software.
- Basic InDesign Training Part 1 – Kristine Rodriguez/Lisa Horstkamp/Carolyn Henderson, CJE
Beginning yearbook students will learn to use basic tools to create spreads in InDesign.
- Advanced Design Part 1 – Building templates and theme pages – Tiffany Kopcak, CJE/Brooke Smith
Experienced students will be inspired by award-winning designs to develop templates, mods, and theme packages for their 2021 books.
4:15-5 p.m.
Adviser Happy Hour – Tiffany Kopcak, CJE
**Artist Sessions: Be sure to sign up for your cover session
**Expert Sessions: Be sure to sign up for your one-on-one expert session to discuss your 2021 theme/design ideas
*Use your evening to work on theme projects and class assignments
Wednesday, July 29
8-9:50 a.m.
New Adviser Training Part 2 (password: yearbook) – Tiffany Cavicchia/Jim Channell
Continued. New advisers will learn how to handle staff organization and deadlines, grading and curriculum, principles of layout and design, and budget/marketing to get started on the right foot for the first year of teaching yearbook.
10 a.m.-Noon (Breakouts – Choose from the choices below)
- Basic Online Design Training Part 2 – Ken Schwartz/Jim Channell/Susie Gillam
Continued. Beginning yearbook students will learn to use basic tools to create spreads in the Online Design software.
- Basic InDesign Training Part 2 – Kristine Rodriguez/Lisa Horstkamp/Carolyn Henderson, CJE
Continued. Beginning yearbook students will learn to use basic tools to create spreads in InDesign.
- Advanced Design Part 2 – Tiffany Kopcak, CJE/Brooke Smith
Continued. Experienced students will be inspired by award-winning designs to develop templates, mods, and theme packages for their 2021 books.
Noon-1 p.m. – Break for lunch
1-2 p.m.
Yearbook 360: Advisers Only – Carolyn Henderson, CJE
The new Yearbook 360 platform will be showcased for advisers to review how to use the new tools and functionality.
1-3 p.m.
Staffs meet independently to prepare theme packages.
3:30-5 p.m.
