Take a look at this article from the Ladue-Frontenac Patch about St. Louis artist Jay Alan Babcock, who spent time working with students from the Community School on his latest project based on old yearbook photos.
Babcock started by scanning the yearbook photos and making copies, then taking the copies and placing them over carbon paper to outline parts of the image or whole images. The images then become drawings, or paintings.
Yearbook is hard work. Your staff needs to work well together to get the job done right and on time. It is helpful if your staff can get to know each other so they can understand each others’ strengths and weaknesses.
Spending time together having fun or sharing serious thoughts can lead all staff members to a greater understanding of how they can best work together on this large yearbook project. As school gets rolling in September, consider these activities for bonding.
It is that time of year when one yearbook staff is wrapping up and another is beginning its work. An awards ceremony, with a fancy or casual banquet, is a great way to cap the year. Whether this is held at a small banquet room at a nearby hotel or at a park shelter, invite next year’s staff to give them something to look forward to.
If you have a summer or fall delivery book, you may have a staff that is still producing their book. Your staff for next year should have plans to sell ads this summer and go to workshop. Consider some of these ideas for relieving stress or bonding, depending on your staff’s needs.
Fresh air, clean water, healthy green spaces – you cannot take them for granted. The place where you live needs a little TLC from time to time. Be thankful for the planet you live on by acknowledging Earth Day this week on April 22. Earth Day is a great opportunity to add to your yearbook coverage, help the planet or have a little fun.
We’ve come up with ideas you can do to honor the day. You can come up with your own. Just let us know what you’re up to by telling us on the Yearbooks Blog.
There are plenty of ways to make your yearbook room festive on today’s St. Patrick’s Day. You can put up the green decorations everywhere, and play the traditional Irish music while you work.
Here’s another fun one – try your hand at this extensive list of St. Patrick’s Day-themed trivia questions.
A little music in the yearbook room can pick up the spirits during these busy days.
Some people work better to music and others do not. Poll your staff to see how they like to work.
In December, the sun only shines about nine and a half hours a day – less in Alaska. Your yearbook staff may be getting to school when it’s dark and leaving when it’s dark. And the upcoming holidays only bring stress, as you and your students work to meet deadlines and prepare for the festivities.
So, take your own break before your school break with one of these ideas for celebrating the season and having fun.
Jim Jordan has been the yearbook adviser at Del Campo High School for nearly 30 years, and during that time he’s built a yearbook program that has forged memorable relationships for the students involved.
Which is why he turned to Facebook three years ago as a location online to rally his past editors and staff members back together to reunite, catch up and share memories.
The yearbook staff at Claremont High School in Claremont, Calif., has been using the fun idea of staff socks up on the wall to spread cheer around the yearbook room.
As a team-building exercise, staff members slip encouraging and lighthearted notes and thoughts into other staffer’s sock.
You can inspire your yearbook staff to write and come up with stories using these ideas for November. The type of writing might be a little different than yearbook writing, but it may get your writers to thinking about different angles to annual topics.
For Family Stories Month, have your staff write short feature articles on interesting aspects of their family, like an etiquette-breaking tradition of throwing the foil from baked potatoes into the trash can from the dinner table to see who makes it. It may generate story ideas. Consider doing this project on Nov. 15, which is I Love to Write Day.
