A warm Volunteer welcome to our yearbook rep, Mary Harris. Get your questions ready!
CS3 Update – According to the H-J plant, our CS3 plug-ins should ship the end of this week.
Before you leave the classroom today! Respond on your wiki page. You must keep me updated on your progress. This is a requirement – don’t procrastinate. I will remind everyone at 11:30am.
This is the beginning of a three class week for us. Mary Harris, our yearbook rep, will join us for the long class on Wednesday. I have great hopes that by the end of the week we will have lots to show for our time together.
Don’t forget to let me know what you accomplished at the end of each class period by responding on your wiki page. I need to know where you are with your work in order to make assignments. BIG HELP!!!
Only 8 days to Brooke’s 18th birthday!
First, tonight is HS Parent’s night and we are going to look at your wiki pages. Please leave a message for your parental units on your wiki page. If time allows, my goal is to show them the wiki video clip and then give them an opportunity to leave YOU a message!
As for class today – check your wikis. There are some expected AND unexpected assignments!
Interesting FACT for today! It turns out that according to the ASPA (American Student Press Association), it is not appropriate to use bylines and photo credits in yearbook. This was posted on the JEA (Journalism Educators of America) listserv by a VERY reliable source. Apparently, books entered for competition are penalized for using them. It is a surprise to me and many other journalism educators whose opinion I respect. While we will observe the standard in most cases, there are a few exceptions that seem important to me. We will discuss further as it comes up.
Lots to do (so call me the Queen of the Obvious, but it is late and there really is a lot to accomplish this week). The BIG DEAL is our cover. We are collecting items from around school and the Edgehill area that students have a connection to and that hold with the “travel journal” theme. Siffat and Kelsey with input from others have put together a list of ideas. Some examples are a hand drawn map showing the location of USN, the Ben & Jerry’s “Free Cone Day” sticker (we have permission to use it), a USN bumper sticker, receipts from Starbucks and CVS, tickets from a student event, something from the trip to China, something from a field trip. Could be anything as long as it is scannable (is that a word – it rhymes with cannibal if you are ever in need of that – ha!). Please add your ideas to the home page on the wiki! By the way, if you find yourself at loose ends – check the wiki. I will keep a running to-do list. Keep up the good work!
Small group today – Fresh and Sophs on retreat. Aside from cover and endsheet, we need to focus on layout ideas for sports, student life, and senior sayings. We have action photos from MS and HS Volleyball. Check the wiki for individual assignements!
TODAY IS HS PHOTO DAY! Do what YOU can to make sure everyone gets their photo taken today in the HS Commons.
Alexandra, Amelia, Sunny and Andrew continue working on your layouts. When you finish, call me over to check it out. I’ll be around to check in with everyone else.
Term for the Day: Dominant Photo – a photo placed in your layout that is 3-5 times larger than all other photos in the layout.
Greetings yearbookers and welcome to our first extended class. Old-timers are forging ahead on the yearbook and new-timers will be focusing in on beginning layout. MOST IMPORTANT – I haven’t had any word yet on whether the book will arrive this week or not, but if by chance it does arrive, please be prepared to help out after school distributing to HS students on the day it rolls in. I will put out an APB when it is on its way. Check your email for updates!
ALSO – Thursday is HS Photo Day! Remind everyone to have their photo taken in the HS Commons.
Oh yes – check out the new link under linky dinks called “A different kind of yearbook”. Food for thought.
Term for the Day: Eyeline – A continuous line of white space across a layout that draws the reader’s eye across the page.
No need to check the wikis for assignments today. We are going to review Indesign as a class. Please take note of the new link to InDesign FAQs under Linky Dinks. You will find answers to many of your InDesign questions here, as well as some interesting and useful InDesign tips and tricks. Go ahead and open up InDesign. It will take few moments for it to load.
Term for the Day: Folio – simply put, is the page number (sometimes combined with a reader reference). The folio is usually placed in the bottom margin of each page, but it doesn’t have to be at the bottom. As you are flipping through books and magazines take note of how the folio is handled. You will find examples of folios on the sides and at the top of pages. The folio in our yearbook includes the page number, the title of the section and usually some graphic treatment that relates to the theme.
Term for the Day #2: I neglected to put a term in for last class so today you get 2 terms! The second term is PICA.
pi·ca (p
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1. a. A printer’s unit of type size, equal to 12 points or about 1/6 of an inch.
b. An equivalent unit of composition measurement used in determining the dimensions of lines, illustrations, or printed pages.
Thanks to all who helped coordinate the senior class photo. Hands down the most cooperative class we’ve ever photographed. We’ll continue on today with individual assignments. Next week we’ll begin training on Indesign and then we’ll move on to layout. Keeping our travel journal theme in mind, be on the lookout in magazines and periodicals for interesting headline treatments and layouts. Bring all your ideas to class and put them in the idea folder.
We have three classes next week. Then the next week is retreat week for sophomores and freshmen. Supposedly the yearbooks are set to ship at the end of next week. As soon as I get the word, we’ll review distribution procedures at the end of class today.
Class 3… The main focus today will be on font selection and seniors. We will be installing all the fonts on all of the yearbook computers. If you have an assignment that involves working on a computer, be prepared to log-off and let Andrew do the installation. It shouldn’t take too long. Don’t forget to leave a status report on the wiki before you leave class. Thanks!
Term for the Day: DPS is an acronym for Double-Page Spread which refers to a layout designed on 2 facing pages. With few exceptions each of our layouts are designed on a DPS. In yearbook we eat, dream, and sleep in double page spreads!
