For his latest project, Walsworth's Mike Taylor, CJE, has funneled some of his vast yearbook knowledge into a Back-to-School eBook.
Open up some random photo folders on your computers and look carefully at the pictures saved for your yearbook. Do you notice that many photos are of one person? This is particularly noticeable in certain sports such as golf, tennis and swimming. Having one person in a photograph is great. More than likely, this person…
Coming up with an interesting angle for a yearbook story can often be a challenge. Either the angle is too vague, or too specific, and it’s nearly impossible to cover the story. Finding an angle that’s just right will help with writing the story later on. But many writers find themselves stumped when it comes…
As the 2016 school year is nearing an end, your yearbook staff may already have a plan for including coverage in your book of the year’s most memorable news events. However many staffs don’t have the time and resources to cover the year’s biggest national news stories. Which is where Walsworth Yearbooks can help with…
When your yearbook staff got organized for this year and mapped out the coverage for this year’s book, hopefully you set out a plan for what you wanted to cover and how you planned to cover it. Now about halfway through the school year, you can see how that plan is coming together. In the…
On the first full day of sessions at the JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Orlando, Walsworth Journalism Specialist Mike Taylor and Martha Akers, JEA’s 2005 Yearbook Adviser of the Year, told a large crowd of yearbook students and advisers that it was time to start spicing up their books with non-traditional coverage.…
Walsworth Yearbooks provides all kinds of amazing marketing tools to help you improve sales. You can find them on this site, over in the Marketing Your Book section. In addition to all those resources, one of the easiest ways to increase your book sales is to diversify your coverage and promote it. This post covers…
If you were to divide the students in your school into three groups they would fall into: Those involved in school activities Those involved in sports Others Students involved in activities and sports have more in common than just school work. The others are simply there to be educated. When you look at the index…
Walsworth’s Yearbook Suite curriculum is a powerful resource that yearbook advisers are using to engage their students with collaborative learning activities. Now is the perfect time to learn how to use the Suite in your classroom. The Yearbook Suite covers it all in 11 units, from Theme and Design to Writing and Photojournalism. There are…
Yearbook staffs are always looking for some inspiration or a little boost of creativity for their theme, cover, coverage and layouts. The Design Showcase area here at walsworthyearbooks.com is home to four galleries, which display images of some of the finest work done each year by Walsworth Yearbooks schools. Each gallery contains its own Search…
Before you know it, the new school year will be here and for advisers it will be time to begin the process of teaching their staff everything they need to know to create amazing yearbooks. First 30 Days – Online Design First 30 Days – InDesign Walsworth Yearbooks has developed a plan that will help…
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