One of the most important components of running a yearbook program is attending and photographing events. Using Google Calendar for event scheduling is a free and effective way to ensure coverage. Here is one way to use Google Calendars for scheduling photo assignments. Establish Google Account Permissions If you are a Google Suite school, talk with your administration and IT …
Managing cameras can be a daunting task. Amid mandatory professional development, countless emails and prepping for the new yearbook, setting up your room for your staff can be a challenge. Keeping your technology safe and secure is a top priority when considering the setup of your space. Here are some tips and tricks to get your room ready for the …
Now that you’ve finished the 2021 book, there is still so much you can do before school is out. I just got my first printed yearbooks in the mail this week! We all thought it might be impossible to create a book during a full year of living through a pandemic, but you and your staff stepped up to the …
Yearbook staffs have put in blood, sweat and tears to finish their yearbooks this year, and those books are starting to arrive! However, the important ritual of yearbook signing is still up in the air. We know you don’t want to miss this important tradition, so until students can get together to actually sign each other’s yearbooks, we found another …
One of my most significant failures as an adviser was that I never put into place a strong system that helped me manage the holiday deadline season well. For too many years, all of the 35 I was an adviser, I let December deadlines manage my life and they drained too much of the joy of the holidays. Don’t let …
With many schools just past that first big yearbook deadline, now is the perfect time to refocus on storytelling. In this week’s episode of Ask Mike, host Mike Taylor, CJE, speaks to two advisers who lead their students to tell great stories. Tiffany Kopcak Tiffany Kopcak teaches her students to eavesdrop. Really. That’s how the yearbook staff at Colonial Forge …
Strong theme copy helps introduce your unifying concept to your readers. Learn some tips and tricks for creating the optimal copy.
How can you get better if you don’t have anyone telling you what you could improve on? It’s true that we’re often our own worst critics, but if you don’t know the rules of the game, how can you possibly know whether what you’re doing is right or wrong? It would be akin to someone calling themselves an excellent Olympic-level …
Halloween can be one of the most photogenic times of the year, what with people dressing in costume and putting up interesting (sometimes wild) decorations.
Take a look at this post from the website digital-photography-school.com for some tips specific to taking pictures on Halloween.
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.