Yearbook Update

Welcome to week 24!

I’ve created a topic within classroom to view the upcoming weekly activities that we need photographers. These activities are actually few and far between so we really need to work on completing pages as early as we can as the yearbook deadline will creep up much quicker than anyone expects. Getting the work done now means less to do later.

That being said, I’m still not seeing a lot of work being completed. There are a couple of outstanding students taking on designing pages, but not so much from others.

This week I outlined a timeline for what page design should take:
Day 1: Template selection and photo placement (maybe 1 extra day if photos are needed)
Day 2: Photo Captions and Headline Writing
Days 3-6: Copywriting (It takes time to conduct interviews and organize our writing. Meet in-person for interviews whenever possible to make it faster as emails take longer to respond to and follow-up questions take even longer.)
Day 7: Background (this is really the last step and shouldn’t take even a full day.)

If every student in the class stuck to this timeline and each worked a page we’d finish half the yearbook in two weeks. Students have to take ownership of the yearbook or the yearbook will suffer, as well as grades.

Please speak with your child about their contributions to the book and encourage them to make it their own.

I still have a few students who have not signed up for a page, as well as a couple of new students trying to catch up so the goal this week is to have our first pages completely done by next Friday 2/5.

What’s going on with Mr. Dudek?
Nothing worth mentioning.

Have a great week Roadrunners,
~Mr. Dudek
pdudek@santancharterschool.com