Information/Activities, Projects and Assignments

IMPORTANT YEARBOOK INFORMATION:

• WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY PHOTOGRAPHS?
• PHOTO NAMING AND CAPTIONING SYSTEM
• THE BUSINESS AD SPREADSHEET FOR 2025-2026.
• The 2026 YEARBOOK PAGE TEMPLATE
• THE 2024-2025 YEARBOOK COURSE OUTLINE
• SENIOR BLOCK TEMPLATE: 2025-2026.
• 2025-2026 HOMECOMING SCHEDULE
• 2025-2026 HIGHLAND MASTER SCHEDULE

9/8/25

CLASS

SUMMARY

(coming soon)

WORK DAY:

1. We gather to review YEARBOOK PROCESSES AND WORKFLOW. Our "Free Time" is over. The ladder is created. The Page Template is posted. Pages are assigned. Time to start putting our book together. Now.
2. IT'S ALMOST HOMECOMING WEEK. We discuss how big of a deal HOMECOMING is for Yearbook and put together our HOMECOMING PHOTO ASSIGNMENTS.
3. BUSINESS ADS and the BUSINESS AD PROJECT. We now have our SALES BOOKS. Please work on making your sales THIS WEEK.
4. SPORTING EVENTS for the week.
5. PHOTOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS WEEK- Your job is the WEEK FOUR/FIVE PHOTO ASSIGNMENT: You will be taking NEW PHOTOS and writing a story for YOUR TEACHER PAGE. I will be grading these photos and stories DIRECTLY FROM THE YEARBOOK PAGE IN YEARBOOKAVENUE, so make sure you have your page started!
6. THE WEEKLY PHOTO CONTEST: I have been disappointed in the progress of this contest. For now, I want to put this on the back burner, so that we can work on other issues.

MAKE SURE YOU ASK FOR PERMISSION BEFORE TAKING ANY "IN CLASS" PHOTOGRAPHS!

9/4/25

CLASS SUMMARY

WORK DAY:

1. Mr. B. demonstrates ADOBE BRIDGE: This has been installed on most computers. Please use it today to put your Week One, Week Two and Week Three photos of the week into the proper folders, along with your CAPTIONS, put into the FILEINFO section of file data in Bridge. In addition, please use TOOLS>BATCH RENAME to name your files LASTNAME_TOPIC (Example: BURKHARD_STUDENT_LIFE). I ABSOLUTELY NEED TO GRADE THESE ASSIGNMENTS BY TOMORROW!
2. BUSINESS ADS and the BUSINESS AD PROJECT. Remember, this assignment is currently ACTIVE, even though we don't have our sales books yet.
3. SPORTING EVENTS for the week.
4. PHOTOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS WEEK- Your job is the WEEK FOUR PHOTO ASSIGNMENT: You will be taking NEW PHOTOS and writing a story for YOUR TEACHER PAGE. I will be grading these photos and stories DIRECTLY FROM THE YEARBOOK PAGE IN YEARBOOKAVENUE, so make sure you have your page started!
5. THE WEEKLY PHOTO CONTEST:Last week's PHOTO THEME was: "REFLECTIONS." Please put your entry into the proper folder on the BLUE drive. This week, our PHOTO THEME is "DETAILS." I recommend using the MACRO function on your phone or your camera to take this photo!

MAKE SURE YOU ASK FOR PERMISSION BEFORE TAKING ANY "IN CLASS" PHOTOGRAPHS!

9/2/25

CLASS SUMMARY

(it was a very tough day, no class summary, sorry)

WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A MELLOW DAY TODAY, as there may be a number of students and teachers out:

1. GRAPHIC DESIGNER MEETING WITH BEN happens in the future. It was cancelled, due to our situation here at HHS.
2. ADOBE BRIDGE: This has been installed on most computers. Please use it today to put your Week One, Week Two and Week Three photos of the week into the proper folders, along with your CAPTIONS, put into the FILEINFO section of file data in Bridge. In addition, please use TOOLS>BATCH RENAME to name your files LASTNAME_TOPIC (Example: BURKHARD_STUDENT_LIFE)
3. BUSINESS ADS and the BUSINESS AD PROJECT. Remember, this assignment is currently ACTIVE, even though we don't have our sales books yet.
4. SPORTING EVENTS for the week There is a SOFTBALL GAME this afternoon at Eaton. Is anyone available?
5. PHOTOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS WEEK- Your job is the WEEK FOUR PHOTO ASSIGNMENT: You will be taking NEW PHOTOS and writing a story for YOUR TEACHER PAGE. I will be grading these photos and stories DIRECTLY FROM THE YEARBOOK PAGE IN YEARBOOKAVENUE, so make sure you have your page started!
6. THE WEEKLY PHOTO CONTEST:Last week's PHOTO THEME was: "REFLECTIONS." Please put your entry into the proper folder on the BLUE drive. This week, our PHOTO THEME is "DETAILS." I recommend using the MACRO function on your phone or your camera to take this photo!

MAKE SURE YOU ASK FOR PERMISSION BEFORE TAKING ANY "IN CLASS" PHOTOGRAPHS!

8/28/25

CLASS SUMMARY

WORK DAY TODAY, there are a LOT of things we need to be working on:

1. BOOTCAMP PAGES. This needs to be completed ASAP and you need to come to Mr. B. to get a regrade.
2. MAJOR ISSUE: We discuss BUSINESS ADS and the BUSINESS AD PROJECT.
3. ADOBE BRIDGE: We are getting this installed and we will be demonstrating how it works as soon as it is installed on the overhead computer.
4. SPORTING EVENTS for the week There is a SOFTBALL GAME this afternoon at Eaton. Is anyone available?
5. PHOTOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS WEEK- Your job is the WEEK THREE PHOTO ASSIGNMENT: You will be taking AN EXCELLENT "STUDENT LIFE" PHOTOGRAPH this week. These should be photos of students being students- studying, working in classes, eating lunch, playing football, hanging out in the commons area, playing esports, etc. Anything that shows students being students will be an acceptable topic for these photographs. There is a NEW WAY TO SUBMIT your weekly photograph and caption and Mr. B. will explain it in class today.
6. THE WEEKLY PHOTO CONTEST: Mr. Burkhard is bringing back the "Weekly Photo Contest" this year. This was a fairly popular weekly contest a few years ago which gives staff a chance to practic their photography skills AND win a prize or two. Madison can explain the award. This week's PHOTO THEME is: "REFLECTIONS." Your photo contest entry needs to show something that shows a "REFLECTION." This can include people, but for this early contest, let's say that you have full creativity and do not need to make this "HHS CENTERED." The more interesting and creative your entry, the better you will do on this project! By the way, I forward all of the PHOTO CONTEST ENTRIES to the entire HS STAFF to vote on every single week and we will be showing the award winners each week on the school hallway TVs!
7. DAVID: Let's try to do some recording today and see if we can also get files for editing, as well.

MAKE SURE YOU ASK FOR PERMISSION BEFORE TAKING ANY "IN CLASS" PHOTOGRAPHS!

8/26/25

CLASS SUMMARY

DANA VISITS: Here are some issues we need to bring up:

• Tranferring templates from last year to this year.
• Ad sales versus number of pages in the book. Can we add pages for more ads or are we locked in?
• Margin Control?
• Cover Deadlines?
• Photo storage, tagging, captioning without Bridge. We need ideas!

WORK DAY TODAY, there are a LOT of things we need to be working on:

1. BOOTCAMP PAGES. This needs to be completed ASAP and you need to come to Mr. B. to get a regrade.
2. Yearbook Pages: We should have our page template ready today. Start putting YOUR pages together for your faculty member. This should include adding your page title, putting a picture and a caption on the page, putting together the left side PAGE INFORMATION and the RIGHT SIDE INFO BAR.
3. SPORTING EVENTS for the week A few of you need to sort out your PHOTOS from sporting events and save them to your folder on the BLUE DRIVE. Then, go through these photos and either put them in the proper folder on the BLUE DRIVE or upload them to yearbookavenue.com
4. PHOTOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS WEEK- Your job is the WEEK THREE PHOTO ASSIGNMENT: You will be taking AN EXCELLENT "STUDENT LIFE" PHOTOGRAPH this week. These should be photos of students being students- studying, working in classes, eating lunch, playing football, hanging out in the commons area, playing esports, etc. Anything that shows students being students will be an acceptable topic for these photographs. There is a NEW WAY TO SUBMIT your weekly photograph and caption and Mr. B. will explain it in class today.
5. PHOTOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT FOR LAST WEEK- Please find YOUR PHOTO ASSIGNMENT PRACTICE PAGE and upload YOUR PHOTOS from last week and caption them for grading.
6. THE WEEKLY PHOTO CONTEST: Mr. Burkhard is bringing back the "Weekly Photo Contest" this year. This was a fairly popular weekly contest a few years ago which gives staff a chance to practic their photography skills AND win a prize or two. Madison can explain the award. This week's PHOTO THEME is: "REFLECTIONS." Your photo contest entry needs to show something that shows a "REFLECTION." This can include people, but for this early contest, let's say that you have full creativity and do not need to make this "HHS CENTERED." The more interesting and creative your entry, the better you will do on this project! By the way, I forward all of the PHOTO CONTEST ENTRIES to the entire HS STAFF to vote on every single week and we will be showing the award winners each week on the school hallway TVs!
7. DAVID: Let's try to do some recording today and see if we can also get files for editing, as well.
8. If we have time: We review HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH A SPORTING EVENT.
9. NEXT CLASS: We discuss BUSINESS ADS

MAKE SURE YOU ASK FOR PERMISSION BEFORE TAKING ANY "IN CLASS" PHOTOGRAPHS!

8/25/25

CLASS SUMMARY-

WORK DAY TODAY:

We discuss grades. LOTS of people did not yet complete their BOOTCAMP PAGES. This needs to be completed ASAP and you need to come to Mr. B. to get a regrade.

We assign Yearbook Pages today! Yay! All staff MUST pick at least one, if not two, staff pages to work on over the next month. What's the downside? You need to begin working on ONE of your FACULTY PAGES by next MONDAY. This should include adding your page title, putting a picture and a caption on the page, putting together the left side PAGE INFORMATION and the RIGHT SIDE INFO BAR.

We discuss SPORTING EVENTS for the week Remember, everyone is expected to "work" at least one major event as a photographer each month. We are in our 3rd week of school. If you haven't yet taken photos at a game or an event, you should sign up TODAY to do so!

PHOTOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS WEEK- Your job is the WEEK THREE PHOTO ASSIGNMENT: You will be taking AN EXCELLENT "STUDENT LIFE" PHOTOGRAPH this week. These should be photos of students being students- studying, working in classes, eating lunch, playing football, hanging out in the commons area, playing esports, etc. Anything that shows students being students will be an acceptable topic for these photographs. There is a NEW WAY TO SUBMIT your weekly photograph and caption and Mr. B. will explain it in class today.

MAKE SURE YOU ASK FOR PERMISSION BEFORE TAKING ANY "IN CLASS" PHOTOGRAPHS!

Please write an EXTENDED CAPTION that describes the activities and the photos that you took. Make this at least a 2 paragraph writing, complete with quotes from photo subjects. This is due on FRIDAY.

THE WEEKLY PHOTO CONTEST: Mr. Burkhard is bringing back the "Weekly Photo Contest" this year. This was a fairly popular weekly contest a few years ago which gives staff a chance to practic their photography skills AND win a prize or two. Madison can explain the award. This week's PHOTO THEME is: "REFLECTIONS." Your photo contest entry needs to show something that shows a "REFLECTION." This can include people, but for this early contest, let's say that you have full creativity and do not need to make this "HHS CENTERED." The more interesting and creative your entry, the better you will do on this project! By the way, I forward all of the PHOTO CONTEST ENTRIES to the entire HS STAFF to vote on every single week and we will be showing the award winners each week on the school hallway TVs!

VETERAN STAFF: Please help putting together Josten's Ladder information, folders, pages, etc. I would like you to be available to help any staff people that need it. I would also like you to complete the WEEKLY PHOTO ASSIGNMENT and WEEKLY PHOTO CONTES this week, as well.

DAVID: I got us some rechargeable batteries. I would like you (in your spare time) to start working with a recorder. Record some stuff, see how it works, how to get material from the recorder to a file, etc. I can also show you our audio recording equipment, as well.

NOTE: Dana is coming tomorrow! We also need to be ready for our appointment with our GRAPHIC ARTIST next week!

8/19/25

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8/21/25

CLASS SUMMARY-

WORK DAY TODAY:

THE BOOTCAMP PROJECT: Due FRIDAY for all new staff members. ALL NEW STAFF need to be vigorously working on their photos, their interviews and their page layouts.

PHOTOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS WEEK- Your job is the WEEK TWO PHOTO ASSIGNMENT: You will be taking FIVE EXCELLENT CLASSROOM ACTIVITY PHOTOGRAPHS this week. These should all be from your classes that you have this Fall. Make these photos clear, well-framed photos that show students completing activities in the classroom. Please include AT LEAST ONE PHOTO of your teacher, doing whatever it is that teachers do.

MAKE SURE YOU ASK FOR PERMISSION BEFORE TAKING THESE PHOTOGRAPHS!

Please write an EXTENDED CAPTION that describes the activities and the photos that you took. Make this at least a 2 paragraph writing, complete with quotes from photo subjects. This is due on FRIDAY.

VETERAN STAFF: Please help putting together Josten's Ladder information, folders, pages, etc. I would like you to be available to help any staff people that need it. I would also like you to complete the WEEKLY PHOTO ASSIGNMENT this week, as well.

8/18/25

CLASS SUMMARY-

YEARBOOK WRITING PRACTICE—AT THE START OF CLASS: Please complete the YEARBOOK PHOTO CAPTION BELLRINGER. You have TEN MINUTES to complete this, before we move on!

THE BOOTCAMP PROJECT: Due FRIDAY for all new staff members. I would like to see some staff heading out to gather their PHOTOS today, if there is time!

PHOTOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS WEEK- Your job is the WEEK TWO PHOTO ASSIGNMENT: You will be taking FIVE EXCELLENT CLASSROOM ACTIVITY PHOTOGRAPHS this week. These should all be from your classes that you have this Fall. Make these photos clear, well-framed photos that show students completing activities in the classroom. Please include AT LEAST ONE PHOTO of your teacher, doing whatever it is that teachers do.

MAKE SURE YOU ASK FOR PERMISSION BEFORE TAKING THESE PHOTOGRAPHS!

Please write an EXTENDED CAPTION that describes the activities and the photos that you took. Make this at least a 2 paragraph writing, complete with quotes from photo subjects. This is due on FRIDAY.

VETERAN STAFF: Please help putting together Josten's Ladder information, folders, pages, etc. I would like you to be available to help any staff people that need it. I would also like you to complete the WEEKLY PHOTO ASSIGNMENT this week, as well.

8/14/25

CLASS SUMMARY-

YEARBOOK WRITING WORKSHOP— We work on some Yearbook learning— "Captions in Depth" Slide Show. Please figure out a way to get your photo from your phone to the BLUE DRIVE or to your computer, so that it can be uploaded. Then, complete the YEARBOOK PHOTO CAPTION BELLRINGER.

THE BOOTCAMP PROJECT: Due next FRIDAY for all new staff members. ...

VETERAN STAFF: We will spend some time today doing Josten’s Logins, but we all need to be available for BOOTCAMP PAGE help and modelling! I also need a volunteer to start putting together all of our BLUE DRIVE FOLDERS.

8/12/2015