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Introduction to Scribus video tutorial - Scribus Desktop Publishing - Learn: misc, linux, office, programme, overview, source, introduction, publishing, first, scribus, open, windows, office_skills, desktoppublishing, texteffects, opensource, openoffice, 7 Tips on How to Make a School Yearbook. How do I create a ladder? Just as you would never attempt to build a house without blueprints, you should never begin a yearbook without a ladder. “Ladder” is the yearbook term for a page-by-page listing of the yearbook’s contents. Spring is a perfect time to plan next year’s ladder while this year’s challenges are fresh in your mind. The number of pages to include in the book is based on financial considerations and the number of students at the school.

Once you determine the number of pages in the book, you must choose the content for each page. Thoroughly filling out the ladder diagram in detail creates a blueprint for your book. The Process for Planning Your Ladder: 1 Determine the number of pages in your yearbook 2 Subtract the number of pages needed for theme pages Theme pages include the title page, the last page, the opening and closing spreads, and the divider pages for each section.

How many students are in each grade at your school? Vocabulary Review Flat - Eight pages on one side of a signature. Planning the Ladder. Kids need structure. It may sound like a cliché, but no one knows this to be true more than a yearbook staff. Without a plan of what goes where and when, a yearbook staff will stumble blindly from deadline to deadline. The ladder is the tool that provides staffs with that structure. Like any great project, the yearbook begins with a list. Planning the ladder is easy, if you begin by making a list of everything that must be in the yearbook, such as homecoming, spirit week, senior superlatives, student portraits, and ads. The ladder serves multiple purposes. Beyond that, the ladder is a guide to the placement of color pages in the yearbook.

A signature is a group of 16 consecutive pages in your yearbook, that, when actually printed, lays flat with eight pages on one side and eight pages on the other. Your book is compiled in signatures, and your color is submitted in flats. A well-thought-out book has a planned look about it. What NOT to do 1. 2. 3. Helpful Hints 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Yearbooks.pdf. Resources | The Yearbook Connection. These are some of the best resources on the web. Keep a handy file of our InDesign Tips & Tricks, take your yearbook class to the next level with SPIN lessons and spark fresh ideas with our WISH handouts. Click on the icons to view pdf files. To download files, right click and select “Download Linked File.” Herff Jones Yearbook Access You can now get an immediate update on what’s happening with your pages at the plant 24 hours a day.

Find out if your kit has shipped, when copy was received, when your cover and endsheets are due out of the plant, when to expect proofs, and a whole lot more. Herff Jones Herff Jones is the parent company of The Yearbook Connection. National Scholastic Press Association In 1921, the National Scholastic Press Association began helping students and teachers improve their publications. Florida Scholastic Press Association Journalism Education Association Columbia Scholastic Press Association Student Press Law Center Adobe.

Www.sandi.net/cms/lib/ca01001235/centricity/domain/4247/yearbook_syllabus.pdf. Yearbook. Dan Rodney - InDesign Tips and Tricks. I'm a long time user of InDesign (since version 1.0) and Adobe Certified Instructor. After teaching InDesign to so many people, there are certain issues that commonly come up. I want to share some with you. I hope they will help you to master InDesign. Note: Cmd is short for the Command key (sometimes called the Apple key). Hidden Tricks & Easter Eggs If you don’t like InDesign panel names in ALL CAPS, here’s a secret to make them Regular Case like they used to be in CS3 and earlier. Create a folder inside the InDesign CS4 application folder named noallcaps (and, as part of the joke, the folder name is of course case sensitive).

InDesign Mysteries & Bugs Why are Two Type Sizes listed? This is a CS2 (and prior) issue that has been fixed in CS3! How to fix the issue: 1. And choose Scale Text Attributes. 3. I can’t delete a color swatch. Something has gone a bit corrupt in the InDesign file. InDesign says font is missing, but I am not using that font and replacing it doesn’t work. 1. 1. Yearbook Ideas, Yearbook Cover Designs, Yearbook Layouts, Yearbook Themes - Picture This Yearbooks. All part of the picture All part of the plan All that shimmers All things aside All things said and done All together now All ways All worked up All wound up All wrapped up in tradition All's well that ends well Alone together Along for the ride Along the way Alpha & Omega Alphabetical order Always and forever Always first Always never the same Always room for more Am I just a school?

Amer-I-Can change An A for effort An acquired taste An all-out effort An American classic An eye for style An inside look Anatomy of a Wildcat And don't you forget it And it all comes together And now for something completely different And now it's your turn And so it was And that's just the half of it And the story begins... And then some And then there was one And your point is... Any given day Any way you look at it Any way you say it Anything and everything you Anything but ordinary Are we caught up yet?

Are we for real? Are we having fun yet? Are we Lion? F.Y.I. O my! Quips & quotes Quite the place. How to Make a Yearbook Layout. Yearbook Help - Yearbook Layout Tips. Interview Techniques. Beautiful photo books and book printing. Make your own book. Yearbooks | Teach It. How to Produce a School Yearbook Cheaply Through Createspace « Writing Is Hard Work. I just finished my fourteenth year of teaching English at the high school level and look forward to a fifteenth. I think back to when I started, and how I was roped in to teaching a yearbook class because I really needed the job and thought that if I took on some electives, it would go well toward keeping me on for at least three years until I earned tenure (back when tenure existed).

Today I don’t teach yearbook. I’m too busy to do that. My career has taken more satisfying turns, but I remember how stressful yearbook could be. I also remember that the yearbook companies who produce school yearbooks like Jostens, Life Touch and the like seemed to charge an exorbitant fee to produce a book which usually was full of mistakes and photographic errors that were not our fault. I remember doing billions of fund raisers to pay for the books, and many times barely broke even. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. 2. 3. Like this: Like Loading... First-Time Yearbook Teacher Has Success! As some of you may know, I took on my school's yearbook class this year in addition to teaching my other classes. It has been both a fun and frustrating experience.

I know I've learned a lot--probably more than my students, actually! Anyway, our yearbook is almost finished (we just have one more file that a senior editor needs to upload on Monday), and I am experiencing a great feeling of accomplishment and pride for my little staff. Our theme was Technically Speaking, and we really took that theme and ran with it. Here's our cover--it looks like a computer hybrid between a Mac and a PC: The actual cover looks way cooler than this--this is just a small file drawing of it. Our pages themselves look like internet sites, except for our first and last pages, which look like a computer desktop and the infamous "blue screen of death.

" Teaching Yearbook - need advice! I've been looking for teaching jobs for a few months, but have restricted myself to high schools and middle schools in about a 3 mile radius. Luckily, the local high school needs a biology teacher, and I had a great interview and very positive follow-up email from the principal. Unfortunately, they just listed the position as Biology / Coach (the teacher that is retiring was an assistant football coach). Needless to say, coaching anything other than teeball would be quite a stretch!

The principal was doing his best to figure out and rearrange schedules, and in the meantime also listed a English / Yearbook position. I emailed to ask if he'd consider a Biology / Yearbook position instead, and he said that would be perfect if I had a journalism certification. So...I have a masters in Molecular Bio, and I am certified to teach (and have taught) high school Biology. Is this too much of a stretch? Am I crazy for even considering this??? Yearbook Design and Teaching Ideas. It's the same problem every year. We have to write about second grade again! Mrs. Days has been teaching here for blah-blah years and she likes to teach blah-blah and what a great teacher she is blah-blah. Writing exciting copy for yearbook can be very difficult. It is especially difficult for the yearbook students to find the stories or quotes during their limited time with other teachers.

I hear more stories and juicy quotes without even trying in the Teacher's Lounge. First, I have them read as many examples of a second grade blurb (or whatever- they just have to all be about the same thing) as I can get my hands on. Then you need to build on the List-Of-What-Made-This-Good. QuotesVivid and detailed description and actionClear, understandable Discuss active vs. passive voice and give lots of examples. Then go on to explain the Hook. Here is my list of hooks: DialogueJuicy Fun QuoteSentence Salad, or Fragmented ListVivid description, Laying Out the Scene Teacher: "Just write! See? Free Indesign CS video tutorials from video-tutes.com. Adobe Indesign cs 2 the clear leader in typographic sophistication, object handling, multilingual publishing, and transparency effects for text and graphics. Follow along as we take you through the design learning curve with our custom designed free video tutorials.

Watch as we show you how to create page layouts and print designs with Adobe Indesign cs 2. Our free Adobe Indesign cs 2 video tutorials explore the integration between Adobe Indesign cs 2 and other Adobe products. Our free tutorials are designed with all users in mind from the very basics through to advanced effects and keyboard shortcuts. It's all here in video-tutes free video tutorials. Go ahead get started right now. This Adobe InDesign CS5 training video by Jeff Witchel is an indispensable resource for anyone wanting to learn this powerful, often intimidating page layout and design program.

Watch the Videos. How to teach yearbook. Learn how to acquire yearbook expertise and teach yearbook as an academic subject. You are probably thinking this right now: You want me to actually teach yearbook? As if I didn’t have enough going on already — surly parents calling to complain, administrators wanting to “check” the yearbook spreads, computers that constantly crash, and a digital camera that now gives an error message whenever we need it most. The handouts from the last adviser seem to work just fine. Besides, I barely have time to get the yearbook done, let alone update the materials and try to teach the kids anything about yearbook or journalism.

However, consider the following: how much time do you waste writing the same corrections on every spread? How many deadlines do you find yourself doing the work for the kids, because you do not trust them or because they have not learned how to properly use the software? Where can I learn what to include in a yearbook curriculum? What materials do I need? No idea how to start? ClassScene can let students upload images and videos online.

Imagine students at your school participating in online media sharing. Not just at home, but on school time using school computers, and the administration not only condoning it, but participating. There is no need to imagine — that reality is here with ClassScene, which will allow students to create a social network of photos and videos in an environment where schools can verify the identities of all network participants, as well as review and control all media files published to the network. ClassScene can let students have fun posting images and videos, and be a useful tool for classes such as yearbook and broadcast, while enabling administrators to reach out to parents and the community. ClassScene is the result of a year-long effort to develop a website devoted to providing schools with a dedicated, safe and secure channel for creating and sharing social media.

New features being introduced include many suggestions obtained directly from schools, including Article by Idea File Staff.