How To ~ Job Assignments

A good yearbook student is born with the most important qualities. The most important qualities are the character traits listed below. The technical aspects of publishing a yearbook can be taught. Do you have what it takes? Do you...

have more fun
develop new ideas continually
remain flexible in your thinking style
take the time to let an idea develop completely and uniquely
love the challenge of solving tough problems and bring order to chaos
get satisfaction from expressing your creativity

Dependable: do what you say you will do. Publication deadlines are not negotiable, someone else will have to cover for incomplete or poorly done assignments
Flexible: be open to change, one idea can change many elements in a yearbook, be open to new ideas.
Willing: volunteer to help when needed. "That isn't my job" doesn't help meet deadlines.
Co-operative: be willing and able to work with anybody on any job in a positive way.
Prepared: be willing to do whatever is necassary outside of class to get your part done.
Accurate: able to do the legwork to get all the facts straight from as many sources as needed.
Fair: the yearbook represents all students. Talk to ALL the students.
Creative: always be alert for photo opportunities, stories, and surveys of interest.

Editor-in-Chief: oversees all aspects of the publlication; maintaining page planner, ensure theme is applied consistantly, help sections meet deadlines, co-ordinate changes.
Design Editor: is responsible for consistency of page layouts, foliotabs, and section dividers. Ensure font size and styles are consistant for copy, headlines and subheadings.
Copy Editor: responsible for editing all copy in the yearbook
Section Editor: is responsible for checking design accuracy and consistency of section which includes an accurate number of pages allocated if doing a Grade mugshot section.
Photographer: is responsible for all photos taken and used on layouts
Business Manager: is responsible for controlling the budget, for keeping track of book sales, advertising contracts

Advertising: is responsible for organizing all advertising accounts, mailing bills to customers, getting missing ads, layout QuikPic pages.
Art and Poetry: is responsible for Desktop publishing artwork and poetry to create Camera Ready pages. Artwork will have to be scanned and poetry copied and formatted in an appealing way.
Badmiton: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting game statistics to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Boys Basketball: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting game statistics to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Boys Volleyball: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting game statistics to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Candids: is responsible for creating QuikPic layouts with Candid pictures. Captions must be accurate and informative.
Cross Country: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting meet statistics to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Curling Writeup: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting game statistics to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Dances: is responsible for getting pictures taken and writing accurate and informative captions to create a QuikPic layout with.
Digital Picture Manager: is responsible for evaluating new digital pictures, discarding unuseable ones and accurately filing useable ones in *.tif format.
Drama Productions: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting interviews to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Entrepreneurship: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting interviews to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Environment: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting interviews to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Foods Writeup: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting interviews to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Football Writeup: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting interviews to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Girls Basketball: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting game statistics to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Girls Volleyball: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting game statistics to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.

Grade 8 Mugshots: is responsible for getting an accurate list of students and creating a QuikPic layout with Candids as needed.
Grade 9 Mugshots: is responsible for getting an accurate list of students and creating a QuikPic layout with Candids as needed.
Grade 10 Mugshots: is responsible for getting an accurate list of students and creating a QuikPic layout with Candids as needed.
Grade 10 Writeups: is responsible for establishing a deadline, "morning announcement" reminders, editing, and rewriting into QuikPic layout.
Grade 10 baby pictures: is responsible for establishing a deadline, "morning announcement" reminders, and creating a QuikPic layout.
Indexing of Student Pics: is responsible for creating an index of students names in the back of the yearbook indicating which page/pages each student can find their picture on.
Merit/Honor Roll: is responsible for creating an accurate list of students that have earned Merit, Honour Roll, and Principal List status and creating
Music Writeup: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting interviews to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Peer Helpers Writeup: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting interviews to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Personalized Covers: is responsible for creating an application form and putting announcements in the "morning announcements." Collecting all the orders and making a list to send off to Friesens.
Publishing: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting interviews to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Rugby Writeup: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting game statistics to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Sewing: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting interviews to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Special Assemblies: is responsible for getting pictures taken and taking notes during the assembly to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Soccer Writeup: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting game statistics to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Staff Mugshots: is responsible for getting a current list of staff (teaching, classroom assistants, and custodians) and making sure there is a picture for each staff member. Then you will create a QuikPic layout.
Student Survey: is responsible for generating a survey form, putting the survey into teachers mailboxes and putting together the final survey list from all the responses. Then you need to use Publisher to create a Camera Ready layout.
Swimming Writeup: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting swim meet statistics to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Tech Writeup: is responsible forgetting pictures taken and getting competition statistics to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Wrestling Writeup: is responsible for getting pictures taken and getting match statistics to create a QuikPic layout with writeup.
Yearbook Sales: is responsible for keeping hallway record chart up to date and checking with office from time to time to get a new list. You will also need to post the number of books sold on the guage in the classroom.
Year in review: is responsible for keeping track of major events that happen during the school year and then creating a writeup from your notes and creating a QuikPic layout. You could also check the old "morning announcements", they usually have all the information you need.

Choose for objective reasons not personal bias. "Make friends of your staff members...not staff members of your friends.

Remember that the yearbook belongs to the school not to the staff. The staff only publishes the yearbook for its reading public.

Share information with the staff and with the school. Your success is their success.

Treat all staff members as equals regardless of their roles. Leave your ego at home.

Be organized. A good deal of help might exist with specialization and accountability

Do proper planning around deadlines. A time line is a good idea for completing responsibilities

If you give a staff member a job to do - let them do it, or tell them why a change needed to be made.

Communicate needs and responsibilities with those expected to do the job. Make it clear what you need done.

Don't be afraid to make mistakes and admit them. Sometimes we can learn a great deal from our mistakes.

Don't exaggerate problems...not everything is a crisis. Be willing to aid each other when a problem occurs.

Don't become fixed on an earlier decision...decisions can be changed and improved on.

Be humble and willing to accept criticism and help. Criticism needn't be considered an attack on you.

Do not procrastinate...what is put off until tomorrow frequently does not get done.

Meet deadlines! Too many people are counting on you to do your job. Your'e part of a publishing team.

Recognize the efforts of all staff members in some way. Have fun with the staff too