Coverage Report

The following people need to make their way into the yearbook....

Jayson Alderman
Cassidy Arvidson
Jesse Bogard
Skyler Comstock
Jamie Crook
Alex Dawley
Jami DeCook
Levi Lamberson
Andrea Cooper
Kelsey DeGroot
Bret Doty
Corey Jensen
Sean Lundquist
Skyler Meyer
Andrew Newport
Cassidy Simpson
Brandon VanWyk
Cody Weller

Two Week Assignment

Jesse and Steven- fifty cut outs

Mallory- shoot friend group pictures, download and rename. Upload to the site.

Kody and Alex - Callie V.G.

Kenzie and Tierney- Staff Section

Aaron- Girls Track

Jordan- Boys Track

Wed- April 21

Rough draft of PERSONAL STORY due at the end of class TODAY!

Thursday- No class ITEDs

FRIDAY- PERSONAL STORIES DUE AT THE START OF CLASS
We will share them (read them out loud to the class) during this class time.

Additional Writing Assignments:
Additional written assignments for the week:
Kenzie: Howe story? COMPLETE
Aaron: Golf Story over Trent or Alec/ Photo of one or both of them
Alex: Work with the 'How to throw a shot put story'. COMPLETE
Kody: Interview Morgan and write up a story about her and this season
Steven: Story about Ginger the Guinea Pig. interview Mrs. Hizer/ James/ Katie Gilman. What's the deal with Ginger???
Tierney: Prom story done (a girl's perspective on prom)
Mallory: Intro to Fashion Page (what does fashion mean in one paragraph) and fashion page captions. Also, eyes on the look out for the kids we need to shoot. Communication is good. It would be great to have this done by the end of the week.
Sue: Finish Prom Page Write up about shoes and ties.
Jesse: Writing up about the Plunger and the mute. Make a list of every photo we need on this page. We will give it to Jordan so she can shoot them.

Week of April 18th

Monday- Demo in class: Writing A Good Personal Story
Mr. Bollman will work with Maddi's interview questions to make a good yearbook story.
Look at examples from last year.
Mr. Bollman will check in your interview sheets.

Reminder- Interviews are done in person or over the phone. INTERVIEWS ARE NOT TO BE DONE VIA TEXT MESSAGE! And NEVER, NEVER, NEVER do a personal interview with a piece of paper for them to fill out. The best questions are SECONDARY Questions like, "tell me more." and "why do you feel that way?"



Work Time: Students will write yearbook personal stories.


Assignments: Rough draft of Personal Story on Wednesday. Read them to the class on Friday.

Additional written assignments for the week:
Kenzie: Howe story? I thought this was complete but I don't have a copy shared with me
Aaron: Golf Story over Trent or Alec/ Photo of one or both of them
Alex: Work with the 'How to throw a shot put story'. we will shoot Blake and finish this layout this week
Kody: Interview Morgan and write up a story about her and this season
Steven: Story about Ginger the Guinea Pig. interview Mrs. Hizer/ James/ Katie Gilman. What's the deal with Ginger???
Tierney: Prom story done (a girl's perspective on prom)
Mallory: Intro to Fashion Page (what does fashion mean in one paragraph) and fashion page captions. Also, eyes on the look out for the kids we need to shoot. Communication is good. It would be great to have this done by the end of the week.
Sue: Finish Prom Page Write up about shoes and ties.
Jesse: Work with me on the Jazz Band page. Writing up about the Plunger and the mute. Make a list of every photo we need on this page. We will give it to Jordan so she can shoot them.

April 6th

Aaron- Mrs. Strobel story on Google Docs, interview Trent about golf, shoot Trent in his golf attire with a club (be creative)

Tierney- Note: Girls perspective of prom


Jesse- Cast list for Fiddler

Steven- Track Roster for girls and boys

Alex- Golf Roster

Kody- girls track story- questions written, interview Morgan Fleener

Sue- Sales push, prom questions

New Jobs

Tierney- Check the Ad statements and checks


Kenzie- Finish Howe story

Jesse- Finish KR story

Aaron- Strobel story

Jordan- Shoot random shots of friends/ classrooms


EVERYONE ELSE
Run non-buyer list, make a note to give to the students

Print Finished layouts, add to case

Assignments

Kenzie- Mr. Howe story and photo

Jesse- Cut-out of Mr. Howe

Sports Guys- Monte game story and some basketball captioning

Sue- Yearbook Week Plan Approved

Mallory and Tierney- Fashion

Aaron- Final Ads (done this week)

March Madness

Great work finishing up your academic pages.
I have a few of you who still have stories to finish and some photos to get done. Let's have those done ASAP as our attention turns to other things.

We will again use this blog regularly as we get back into the swing of weekly assignments.

Reading Assignment

Read this.... Explain it in your own words in a comment. Use the questions below to guide you...

Resolution Article


How do you fix an image with resolution 72?
What resolution should print documents be?
What happens if you don't do it right?

Assignment- Monday

Class- time is short today so be ready to work hard.


You and a partner will receive a yearbook spread that is in the final edits portion. Your assignment is do to the following-

1- BE SURE TO CORRECTLY INDEX ALL PHOTOS USING THE NAME GUIDES


2- READ and note any mistakes or edits you'd suggest. Do this in a colored marker

3- Indicate any missing information on ANY PORTION of the spread.

4- Hand the paper back to me at the end of class.

Content Module for Academic Page

Hello Yearbook Class-

You should now have the data you need for your pole/question for your academic page.
Today you need to get them on your page. Have this portion of your page complete with any photos or formatting done.

REMINDER: Your academic page is DUE in TWO WEEKS.

Any photos you need to take or stories you need to write need to be done in that time.

Story ideas:
PE Page- do a story on the Dickenson twins who are master archers

English Page and Business Ed- do a story on KR and Mrs. Strobel. They both maybe retiring this year.

Music- Do a HUGE special on Fiddler

Art- interview Paige about the Photography she does out of school

Math- Do a special on how Mr. Kelderman uses technology to teach... just an idea. can't think of much else.

Shop- Do a story on the new computers in the Cad Lab

Just a few ideas. We can brainstorm more in class

Assignment- Due Friday

Create a poll or a sample question worksheet for your academic page. Save it on Google Docs in the Yearbook folder.

Use that sheet to poll or question the students at NM.

Example: What's your favorite game in P.E.?



What is your favorite unit in PE?
A. Archery
B. Weight Lifting
C. Pickle Ball
D. Volleyball

Have your DATA present at the start of class on Friday.

study tip from our jan student of the month

Study the night before and sleep on it

Yep...

Things we need to do:

Aaron- go shoot a football helmet and upload it to the football folder. This is very important

Jesse and Steven- We need to get all the yearbook staff cut-out and uploaded.

Sue and Kody- write up blurbs about dress-up days on Google Docs

Alex- still one more score to stick on the Nov page... the one with the Blood Drive on it.

Abby- Winter weather/ ice storm. Mention that some kids were without power for five days.

Mallory and Kenzie- Love it up

Jordan- please upload those good photos to Yearbook Avenue. I especially want to use the one of Brock with his head down.

ANYONE WHO IS FINISHED WITH THEIR WORK FOR THE DAY CAN START INDEXING PHOTOS!

Tuesday Assignments

Sue: Get out your list for the preschool students and see me at my desk.

Tierney: Make copies of the elementary order form and take them down to the elementary

Abby: Story Topic... missin' tons of school

Jesse: fifty million cut-outs

Kody: work on WSW spread

Alex: Girls still undefeated story

Love girls: get stuff on the page

Steven: See me for an important job.

Photo Tip 1

Tip 1: Check out your background. So often we shoot pictures of people and we are totally oblivious to what is behind them. Yes, some of that can be fixed in post production with Photoshop but why do that when just a simple, quick look at what is there (and not just at your subject) can solve a bunch of problems. Maybe just moving two feet in one way or another will save you 30 minutes later taking a branch out of someone’s head.

Tuesday Assignment

Get with a partner. Write a caption for each of the photos below from the Montezuma game. Do more than just describe what is going on... try to paint a picture of the girls season.

Suggestions will be below each photo.


Senior Acacia La Rue pops a jumper from ten feet away. Acacia leads the team in....


Senior Kenzie Lenz mans up on Bravette point guard Something McSomethingson.


Sophomore Kate Ray looks to put up another three point attempt. Kate has rained down the threes during the Warhawks December hot streak.

Busy Monday

Monte Game photos
We have a write up on the Monte game from last month but at the moment we don't have the images uploaded. We need to find the photos from that game and IF no one took any we will need to contact Stacia and see if she can share the love.


We are going to work on the following duties as Assigned:

Sue: Shop/ Ag--- content module? what sort of info will you gather?

Aaron: Upload photos. we have some ag photos from Friday that we need to get uploaded and shared with Mr. Bever.

Tierney: State Dance Question

Jordan: Manage/ upload photos. If time, shoot elementary recess

Kody: Tanner Wanders story, big time wrestler

Alex Malone: Start a Google Doc with both boys/girls scores

Jesse: Cut outs

Mallory: Love spread

Kenz: Love spread

Steven: Content Module for Spanish... think of one. make sheet to ask question
ideas? ask for Spanish names? or their favorite game or song from Spanish class?

Abby: Camera time


TOMORROW- Everyone will work on INDEXING!!! :-)

Work day-

Today in Yearbook we need to work on layouts, manage photos, upload them to the website and place what we can on the website.

Busy bees making honey!

New Year's Assignment

Assignment:

Everyone will collect a New Years Resolution from one student from each grade (7-12).

Steven C will hand out a worksheet for this project.

DUE: Tomorrow!!!!


Sue: Make sure the elementary questions are shared on Google Docs.

Volunteers to take photos today?

--- Deadlines

Mid Term Assignments
-Final Advertisements
-January and February Articles
-Indexing

3rd Quarter Assignment
Academic Pages Done


Mid Term 4th Quarter
-Photo page Content Modules
-March/ Jazz Band/ Prom Articles Done
-Senior Photos
-Indexing

Final Grades
Final Articles/ Senior Trip/ Spring Sports
Indexing


May Term
Graduation/ May
Indexing

Academic Page Ideas

So you have been assigned to an academic page for the yearbook... But you have no idea what to put on it. Well here is a great guide to help you get started.

Academic Pages
Art, English, History, Spanish, Math, Industrial Tech, PE... etc

Photos of all the teachers or copy quoting all the teachers
Action shots of the classroom
Look for projects or activities
Not just students in their seats and teacher at the board
Content module of an event or asking question concerning the content

• Experiment- list steps and ask questions what they learned
• Field Trip- Favorite thing they saw
• What was their favorite thing they made/learned in class

A Content Module (a chart or graph) that says the courses that were offered that year
A list of things you study in that field
A list of possible job opportunities in that area of study

Quotes from FAMOUS people from that field
Ex- Einstein for math
Maya Angelou for English
Picasso for Art

Games or fill-ins related to that subject
Ex- A matching section for famous writers and their novels
A Magic Square for math (done last year)


A giant shot of an object that relates to the subject
ex- a calculator for math
a saw for shop
a paint brush for art


HUMAN ANGLE
A story about past students that are now working in that field
A story a retired former teacher or a veteran teaching planning to retire (they will make these decisions in the next few months)
A student that truly excels in the subject. You may have to ask the teachers for someone to focus on.
ex- Kylie R. is amazing at art
The Ferguson's love raising livestock
I'm sure someone loves math....


Remember to capture facts and feelings that you and your fellow students will fondly look back on in the future. If something major happened at a jazz band contest and everyone talked about it the next week at school, that should make its way into the yearbook. If a student-athlete or performer gets a big honor then that should also make your layout. Also, don't forget to look at the events of the year from different angles. You can interview the star of the team, the president of FFA with the trophy from the fair, and the soloist from band... but you also can interview the fans that followed the ball team, the voc-ag freshman who dream of success at the state fair, and the cowbell player who waits all night for "Rock and Roll All Night".

Look for ways to reach everyone. This is a journal of the YEAR... everyone who had a part, whether large or small, in making it different and amazing.

Photo Guide

Neil Turner at DP Review recommends finding different heights to shoot from - 'The best photographs are made when the photographer chooses a vantage point to suit the subject, and it is surprising how few subjects are suited by the height of a human standing at their full five to six feet'.

So take a second and think about your photographs. Look at the pictures you have taken so far this year. From what angle were they taken? Are they all from a full standing position? Change the paradigm. Take pictures sitting down, lying on the floor, standing on chairs, even on a ladder.

But be careful. For the first few days after you do this, you may come back with pictures taken from the oddest angles imaginable. The key is not to do it all at once but to just think about how a picture might look if taken from another angle.

Remember, take LOTS of shots of an event. Digital photography is FREE... If you don't like an image you simply delete it later. So why take one shot of a play, meeting or event when there is a good chance that it might not be what you want later on your layout. Instead, take a few 'safe shots'. Then think of new views from which you can capture the moment.

Happy shooting!

Welcome Back

I hope everyone had a great holiday.

We will get together and assess where we are and where we need to go as a team.

We will set some goals and look at the work we need to do the next few weeks.

Its YEARBOOK time!