I don’t know about every state, but here in Texas we have a great resource in the UIL and it’s journalism arm ILPC. They have a great number of resources, publications and a spring convention. They also critique yearbooks, newspapers and broadcasts each year. It is well worth the entry fees. Find your state’s organization [...]
I ran across a fun site filled with celebrity yearbook photos. The site itself does have some Not Safe For Work elements and language (NSFW), so you will want to check this out at home. But you can probably frame grab a few photos to use as examples in class as long as you delete [...]
This year, I’m going to start my yearbook class off with design. I usually leave it for last, as in the best for last. But I notice that often my yearbook kids get bored with writing and struggle with photography.
So if I am going to begin with design, then this site should be a great [...]
I’ve listed a ton of utilities for the Mac, but since I don’t use Windows much, I don’t have a lot of good resources for the Microsoft side. Here’s one site that seems to have a ton of great utilities.
Mr C
Today was my first day back to school officially. We have five days of inservice and then the kids come back on Monday. This is prime time to get ready and my server is being fussy. I may have to reinstall the software Wednesday. I’m using OSX server and sometimes it just mystifies me when [...]
As I mentioned before, yearbook is a year round activity. Hopefully by now you are thinking about how to get started. Really, you are already behind if you aren’t started now!
But don’t panic. My first year as a yearbook adviser, I didn’t have a theme until mid-September and wasn’t sure who would take our school [...]
If you use Macs, then don’t be too excited to “upgrade” to the new iMovie. So far, the reviews are in and they are bad. The new iMovie stinks. It has lost so many features that we have grown to love and depend upon.
I have not yet seen or played with it, but I hope [...]
When we are in our production cycle, be it yearbook, broadcast or web design we have little mini conferences. Many times I come to a student who hasn’t turned in the assignment yet and I ask them why they haven’t got anything done.
There are many answers, but like this story on copyblogger says – [...]
Here’s a great, fun and cool little activity that you can do on the day that you introduce how a yearbook is made. Have everyone make their own magic book!
After you make the magic book, then you can use it to demonstrate how books are put together. And while your at it, introduce [...]
Photojojo would be more correctly called photo mojo. This is a cool service that you can subscribe to or just visit their web site. If you choose the email subscription, you get one email a week with a cool, new photo tip.
Their tips range from interesting how to’s for photoshop to more arts [...]
