Welcome readers with appealing entry points
Two seconds is how long the average reader will look at a spread before turning the page. So it’s the designer’s job to try to capture those wandering eyes by using attractive yet planned design....
View ArticleUsing the camera you have
Expensive staff cameras and lenses will produce the best photos. However, a staff member may come across a good photo opportunity and not have a staff camera with them. Help your students to understand...
View ArticleTop 10 for teaching design
Basic design knowledge is necessary to creating a strong yearbook. Teaching students how and why design is important is a worthwhile exercise. It may seem to take forever, but once students grasp the...
View ArticleThis I Believe – I believe in yearbook
A writing assignment for an AP Literature class turned into a heartfelt essay about the meaning of yearbook. Emily Fogleman spent three years on the yearbook staff at Southern Alamance High School in...
View ArticleFossil Ridge staff captures special homecoming moment
Covering the annual homecoming football game is standard business for yearbook staffs. Finding a unique, meaningful story from the event becomes the challenge. That won’t be an issue this year for the...
View ArticleCelebrate National Yearbook Week with our Share-a-bration Contest!
National Yearbook Week is here once again! That means it’s time to celebrate all things yearbook. From Oct. 4-10 every year, yearbook staffs across the country take a little extra time to have fun and...
View ArticleContinue team-building fun all year
As the year progresses, your staff may get stressed during deadlines; tension may even appear in the classroom. That’s why students need to continue to work on team building to keep relationships...
View ArticleGet your staff into National News Engagement Day!
We hope everyone is having a wonderful National Yearbook Week, and celebrating all things yearbook! Today is National News Engagement Day, and teaching your staff to make it a priority to get informed...
View ArticleHonor your yearbook adviser on World Teachers’ Day!
The National Yearbook Week festivities keep rolling on, and today is World Teachers’ Day! Teachers have an amazing impact on the lives of children all over the world. Walsworth Yearbooks is proud to...
View ArticleJEA/NSPA Indy Convention program now online
The official program for next month’s 2016 JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Indianapolis is now available to download at the convention website –...
View ArticleCheck out the winners of our Share-a-bration Contest!
Walsworth Yearbooks celebrated National Yearbook Week this year by holding a Share-a-bration Contest – encouraging staffs to have fun, get the word out about their yearbook and tell us all about it on...
View ArticleWeave your theme through your book
To bring a cohesive look to your yearbook, your theme should be on the cover, endsheets, and the title, opening, closing and division pages. Begin moving your theme beyond the cover with this activity...
View ArticleWheeler adviser loving the benefits of Walsworth’s PEP
Kathleen Kosal is busy. She is in the middle of her second year as the yearbook adviser at Wheeler High School in Valparaiso, Indiana, where yearbook has moved from a club to a class, with a larger...
View ArticleYearbook box costume sparks marketing and fun
Proving again that cardboard boxes provide hours of fun, journalism students at Robinson High School in Tampa, Florida, clamor to wear a yearbook box costume created to market the yearbook. And the...
View ArticleTimber Creek promotes yearbook with fans at football games
High school football is big in Texas, and the yearbook staff at Timber Creek High School in Fort Worth used a fun, clever idea to spread awareness of their yearbook sales this season. The staff created...
View ArticleWalsworth helping promote Cyber Monday yearbook sales
We’re now only a few weeks away from one of the biggest online shopping days of the year, and Walsworth Yearbooks is helping staffs get ready. Known as Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving has...
View ArticleHarding University named winner of ACP Pacemaker
The 2015 Petit Jean yearbook of Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, was among the universities to receive a Yearbook Pacemaker award from the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP). Also among the...
View ArticleYearbook 3D can add special touch to your cover
Most yearbook staffs now have a few months of work behind them, which most likely means your yearbook cover has already been concepted and created. However even if your basic cover design is finished,...
View ArticleTen 2016 yearbooks printed by Walsworth named CSPA Crown Finalists
Ten 2016 yearbooks printed by Walsworth Yearbooks were among the high school, middle school and college yearbooks announced as 2017 Crown Award Finalists by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association...
View ArticleFelix Varela’s gold cover gets the Spotlight
In the newest edition of our Cover Spotlight, let’s take a closer look at the cover of the 2016 Crotalus from Felix Varela Senior High School in Miami, Florida. This cover demonstrates a great way to...
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