Every yearbook needs lots of great photos. The good news is – there are tons of photos being taken every day by students and parents.
Yearbook staffs working with Walsworth can get their school community to share all those amazing pictures they take throughout the year by using Community Upload. And now, we’ve enhanced the whole process to make it easier to use.
It’s important to get your yearbook off to a strong start, and Walsworth wants to make sure that happens.
Advisers can get organized at the beginning of the year by using our First 35 Days (for InDesign users) or First 40 Days (for Online Design users) lesson plans to get their staffs up to speed.
For many yearbook staffs, the start of the new school year is only days away and the hard work of creating the 2014 yearbook will begin immediately.
To help advisers and staffs remember and complete all the work that goes into the yearbook, Walsworth has created four 12-month checklists for the 2014 school year as a guide.
Check out how one yearbook staff created a fun way to use this year’s Walsworth Day-by-Day Calendar.
The daily Walsworth calendar is filled with all sorts of tips about marketing and journalism, and tons of different fun shout-outs for the staff. So adviser Kelly Krepelka and the staff at Garner High School in Garner, N.C., have been making a colorful collage on the wall of the yearbook room as the days go by this year.
Has your yearbook staff been looking for a little coaching on their headlines, captions or body copy? Maybe you’re working on a great story, but you’re struggling with the lead. If the answer is yes, help is on the way!
As part of its upcoming National Yearbook Week celebration, Walsworth Yearbooks will be spending the entire day on Tuesday, Oct. 9, offering free writing advice to any yearbook staff looking for a little help.
Walsworth’s Theme Gallery, located in the Showcase area of walsworthyearbooks.com, now includes images from 15 new 2012 yearbooks.
Walsworth updates the galleries in the Showcase area each year to serve as idea generators for yearbook staffs, and also as a way to show off some of the best work done by its schools.
Recently over in the Idea File area, we wrote about how some yearbook staffs are putting iPads to good use in marketing and selling the yearbook at their sales table.
For the staffs who now have iPads as an available resource, here is a post from the site PadGadget.com with a list of Apps that might be particularly useful with yearbook.
The Yearbooks Blog loves talking to advisers who are doing things to keep the yearbook relevant in their school. Recently we got a chance to chat with Melissa Falkowski from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
Falkowski has been the yearbook adviser at MSD for seven years, and is currently working on her master’s degree in journalism through a program from Kent State University.
There’s only a few hours left in 2011, and there all kinds of year in review lists all over the internet wrapping up the last 12 months.
Your staff will probably want to include some current events coverage from the second half of 2011 in the yearbook. The top national and world news, entertainment and sports highlights are a great way to look back on the year.
Has your yearbook staff ever considered organizing a photo contest? If not, it could be time to give the idea a try.
A photo contest is a great way to get students interested in, and actively involved with, the yearbook by submitting photos for consideration to be used in the book. A contest can even be structured so that the winner gets a free yearbook.
