InDesign
If you’ve used InDesign for a year or two and want to take your program to the next level, or are new to the program, this is the class for you! We’ll review Jostens Yeartech and all the basic skills required to create pages and then you’ll learn shortcuts and tricks that will help you create the yearbook of your dreams in less time than ever. Maximum of 3 students per school.
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Beginning Yeartech Online
This is the class for schools new to creating a book online. We’ll teach you how to use the program. From designing pages, to uploading pictures. Your staff will be able to work “live on the web” and actually practice creating pages. Maximum of 3 students per school.
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Advanced Yeartech Online
This is the class for schools with experience creating books online. We’ll teach you how go beyond the basics of using pre designed layouts. We will show you how to integrate Photoshop and other cool tricks into your book . Your staff will be able to work “live on the web” and actually practice creating pages. Maximum of 3 students per school.
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Photography
Campers bring their own 35mm single lens reflex cameras, or digital camera to learn how to take better action photographs. From shutter speed to f-stops, composition to positioning, this is a must-take class for photo editors and sports photographers. If you are taking this class with a digital camera, make sure it is at least a 3 mega pixel camera, and don’t forget extra batteries. |
Leadership Training
Want to know how to be the best editor or staff member you can be? Once you have completed leadership you will know how to edit proofs accurately and easily, prevent and deal with conflict, build staff moral and teamwork, form a systems of communication and expectation, learn how to delegate effectively, and establish a solid working relationship with your adviser. You will be able to create the best environment to make the production of the yearbook as smooth and successful as possible. |
Copywriting/ Caption writing
Students will learn the latest trends in copy writing and the techniques required to make the stories in their yearbook relevant to today’s teens. We’ll also practice interviewing techniques and learn to develop a plan for each section of the yearbook. Your staff will leaves with the skills to get better quotes than simply " I like playing football because it is fun." |
Layout and Design
Using examples from today’s hottest magazines and yearbooks, students will learn what’s in and how to get it into their books. A very hands-on, cutting-edge, “think outside the box” approach to getting more into and out of every double page spread. This is a great class to take if you are tired of pre designed layouts and you want to take your designs from OK to WOW!!!
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New Adviser Training
A full 13 hours of instruction for first-time advisers. We teach advisers all they need to know to make it through the first year. It includes an introduction to desktop publishing, classroom management techniques, deadline planning, and more! New advisers will leave with a good sense of the timeline of the year, a list of things to teach at the very beginning of the school year, a box full of tools designed to save them time and keep them on track. New advisers should try to bring a laptop with them. Many 2nd year advisers take this.
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PhotoExtreme
We are offering Photo Extreme this year. This is a course that is an incredible chance to work closely with a professional photographer and your digital SLR camera. You will learn how to use the settings to take pictures like a professional. You will learn to shoot sports, indoors and out. You will learn to frame shots with a professional eye, and learn how to make all of those settings on your camera do just what you need them to do. Then you will learn how to perfect your pictures in Photoshop Extreme. Students taking this course will be given a special schedule to follow during camp. Due to the intense nature of this course, there will only be two students per school allowed to attend (maximum of 24 students). As soon as this class is full, it will be closed.
There is an additional charge of $50 per person to take this class.
Requirements for Photo Extreme
(students must have the following equipment with them at camp)
• A digital SLR camera with a removable lens
• An external flash that fits in your camera’s flash shoe and extra batteries for it
• Your camera’s battery charger
• Card reader to get your pictures off of your
camera
• Laptop (Mac or PC) for Photoshop Extreme
• External mouse for manipulating Photoshop |
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