Week of October 7: Yearbook-Journalism
What We Did:
- Theme
- Style Guide
- How do we coordinate our book
What to Work On:
- Take pictures! Always take pictures! :)
What We Plan to Do Next Week:
- More work on our style guide
- Tutorials in our online program
Carpenter - Yearbook/Journalism (Section Fri 3)
Course Description
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Class Title: |
HS Yearbook |
Code: |
HEL930 |
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Text: |
Various Resources |
Rating: |
2 |
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Prerequisite: |
None |
Grade: |
9-12 |
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Fees: |
None |
Max: |
15 |
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Can be repeated? Yes |
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Description: Throughout the year, students will chronicle all the happenings at APEX and create a full yearbook for the high school student body. Students will learn principles of good writing, editing, formatting, graphic design and layout using computers to put together the yearbook.
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Week of September 30: Yearbook/Journalism
What We Did:
- Participation grade is being added later in the month-- we talked about what we think is fair for participation
- Practice ladder for the book
- How long will each section be? What does each section want for the book?
- What do we want in our book this year?
What to Work On:
- Always take pictures!
- Keep thinking about your section
What We Plan to Do Next Week:
- Theme for the yearbook
- Style guide for the yearbook
Week of September 23: Yearbook-Journalism
What We Did:
- Yearbook jobs
- Logging in to our yearbook software: myhjyearbook.com
- Uploading photos
- Tagging photos appropriately
What to Work On:
- Always take photos of what’s going on at APEX!
- Think about the section of the yearbook you’ll be working- what are some ideas you have for pages, stories, etc.
What We Plan to Do Next Week:
- Draft Ladder- first draft of our yearbook pages
- Start thinking about our theme and style guide
Week of September 16: Yearbook-Journalism
What We Did:
- Applied for jobs
- Review of photography basics
- Started taking pictures
What to Work On:
- Take pictures! Always be taking pictures at APEX for the yearbook :)
What We Plan to Do Next Week:
- Job assignments
- Logging in to myhjyearbook.com
- Uploading photos and tagging photos
** Please bring your camera and cord to upload your photos
Week of September 9: Yearbook/Journalism
What We Did:
- How to take good photographs
- Thank you to Mrs. Campie for helping us out
What to Work On:
- Take photos of APEX students!
What We Plan to Do Next Week:
- Finalize sections
- Apply for jobs
- Taking photographs ourselves
** Please bring your camera next week to class (or whatever you plan you using to take pictures with)
Week of September 2: Yearbook/Journalism
What We Did:
- What do we want to see in our yearbook?
- Possible sections
- What job do you want?
- Theme ideas
What to Work On:
- Think about what job you’d like
- Brainstorm ideas for stories
- Theme ideas
What We Plan to Do Next Week:
- How to take good pictures
- Mrs. Campie is coming to talk to our class about how to take good pictures and the basics of photography
Week of August 26: Yearbook/Journalism
Welcome to the tech lab! We had a great first week of school! Each week I will send home a weekly newsletter. It’ll be a bulleted list of what we’ve done during the week, what students can work on at home, and our plans for the following week. Sometimes plans change, but this is largely what will be coming up in class. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me. I’m looking forward to a great year with the students in the tech lab!
What We Did:
- Intro to class
- Getting to know you
- Class expectations
- Logging in to Google Classroom
- Class survey
- Setting up our notebook- vocab and notes
- Looking at yearbooks- what do we like? Don’t like?
What to Work On:
- Think about theme ideas
- What job do you think you want for the yearbook?
What We Plan to Do Next Week:
- Share ideas for what we like and don’t like in yearbooks
- What sections do we want for our yearbook?
- Jobs for our yearbook
- Start discussion on our theme