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.
Maybe your yearbook staff has thought about producing a YouTube or Facebook video before to promote the book, but then skipped on the idea because you thought it would be too difficult, or too time-consuming.
Take a look at this yearbook video from some guys at Mariner High School in Cape Coral, Fla. As they show, sometimes the videos can just be fun, simple, and maybe even a little crazy.
Selling the yearbook in a school made up of just two grades can be tough. See how one middle school of more than 1,600 students and 100+ staff members, doing yearbook as an after-school activity, gets it done.
It seems like there’s all kinds of specialty talk days anymore. Well, this IS National Yearbook Week. So why not a Talk Like Yearbook Day? At Walsworth, we want to make this Thursday, Oct. 8, Talk Like Yearbook Day.
Clearly explain the group’s topic and goal.
Allow participants a few minutes to think.
The teaser attracts by arousing curiosity in the reader. This wordplay can be challenging and fun.
Motivate your photographers by supplying them with the necessary tools to assist them in creating memorable visual images.
Basketball tends to be a difficult sport to shoot because it is played in a gymnasium. Most high school gymnasiums are not well lit, thus it is very difficult to get a shutter speed high enough to capture the action unless you use a very high ISO film (3200).
Before you begin to write, read over your interview notes and gather related terms and important information. Listing and clustering start the juices flowing; they put you in the writing mode.
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