Course Description
Yearbook is an intensive, deadline-driven course where students create a commercial-quality memory book for the school using an online proprietary program by the Yearbook publisher, TreeRing. No previous experience is necessary to take this course. Students will shoot the photos, create the layouts, and brainstorm challenges in order to make the deadlines necessary.
Student Learning Objectives
The material taught in this class is based on the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards. Students in this program will seek to become a:
Digital Citizen
Student will recognize the rights and responsibilities of living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world and practices safe, legal and ethical use of software and hardware.
Responsibility
Students will understand, practice and learn skills for applying ethical and legal considerations to planning, storytelling, and production.
Content
Students will understand, practice and learn skills for applying ethical and legal considerations to planning, storytelling, and production.
Reporting
Students will identify and master information-gathering skills, recognizing the importance of first-person observation, conducting research and interviewing sources as vital techniques.
Writing
Students will understand, practice and learn skills for writing stories.
Headlines
Students will understand, practice and learn skills for writing captions for photographs.
Captions
Students will understand, practice and learn skills for writing captions for photographs.
Photography
Students will understand, practice and learn skills for planning, shooting, and editing photographs.
Innovative Designer
Students will use a variety of technologies to create new, useful, and imaginative solutions. Students use digital skills to produce creative, eye-catching layouts.
Creative Communicator
Student communicates clearly and creatively using platforms, tools, styles, formats, and digital media appropriately.
Methods of Instruction
This is a hands-on course where students will be using computers every day. Most of the work is project-based with lectures, discussions, videos, and demonstrations.