A New Creation

Today's Menu

2009-09-17T00:16:00.002-05:00

Here's today's Menu Choices:

Casey and Layne are going to present a cover/theme that we worked with Mr. Tod on the other day during 4A.
Assign pages on the ladder. REMINDER: Yearbook 2 staff members get first choice!
Create senior ad templates. (Layne and Casey can unlock your pages.)
Contact business and sell more ads...please!

Please call on my cell if you have questions or concerns.

Let's Go to Camp!

2009-07-13T14:05:00.002-05:00

Please make plans to attend Mrs. Gillmore's Yearbook Camp on August 12-13!

I am working on our agenda and will be posting it to the this class's wiki at Cafe Yearbook.

In advance, thanks for helping us create another year's history at Batesville High.

Comments? Questions? Concerns?

One last deadline...

2009-05-25T21:33:00.003-05:00

This is it...one last deadline!

Tomorrow, during this class's semester test time, you will present your theme presentation to me for 2009-2010!

Remember: your semester test is based upon how much YOU, individually, put into creating this presentation.

As you already know, I am out, again, today. This time my husband is having knee surgery, a much-needed surgery. He is in extreme pain, time for some relief!

Also, we need to confirm, make a final decision about summer camp: going to Walsworth's or staying local? Be thinking and discussing!

Please email me questions, comments, and concerns...or just to check in!

Thanks!

Assignment for April 24

2009-04-22T22:56:00.002-05:00

Please work on the following today:

Draft your pages. Need to be completing them! This magazine will need to go to the printer next Thursday!
Call your businesses...make those contacts. Need your info? The clipboards are located behind my desk by the green deadline folders.

To those attending Prom tonight: Enjoy! Be safe!

The Latest in Gillmore-Land

2009-04-16T11:11:00.004-05:00

I am out again today...my stepson broke his ankle Tuesday evening and will have surgery tomorrow at Arkansas Children's Hospital.

HELP! I am in charge of setting up the entertainment for the Mini-Relay for Life, which is tomorrow night! I have several 10-minute slots...would you please help me recruit some entertainers for tomorrow? Sydney, are you interested? Would someone touch base with Kathleen T and the Barber sisters....today...please? Then let me know? Who else?

Today's other assignments:

Work in your teams to create a yearbook theme campaign consisting of a cover, divider page, a sample double-page layout, and any reoccurring thematic elements that might be repeated throughout the book.
Work on the magazine! Someone please check my mailbox for returned interview questions...some might be for newspaper (4A). Please leave those for the next class.
We need to sell ads next Wednesday. Please feel free to claim a business...or two (someone make a master list and place in Yearbook folder) and contact any businesses ahead of time! I'm remembering...Briley and Jill, you have this under control?!
What else? Sorry about the "scatteredness" of this...we got home about 4 AM this morning...
Send me an email or drop a comment here...I'll read them and respond.

Once again...thanks! You are great!

Yearbook 2009 Is Completed...and Gone!

2009-04-08T10:12:00.002-05:00

Congratulations! Job very well done! Cheesecake on Friday, anyone?

Today, I am assessing a new teacher in another school district so that she may obtain her "real" teacher's license. While I am away, please work on the following:

Write, type, deliver, and place a copy of your interview questions for your stories for the magazine in the folder within the "Magazine 2009" folder.
Then draft magazine templates. Will have to open a"new document" in InDesign. We can later copy/paste them on the magazine pages (just did not have time to break those pages out). Save these pages in the "Page Template" folder within Magazine 2009.
SO DUE TODAY: interview questions and page layouts.

Yearbooks should be here within three weeks...wow! That is exciting!

Have a grand day...and please leave me a comment below so I know you read this blog post!

Deadlines!

2009-03-30T23:27:00.003-05:00

D5 proofs are back; they must be sent to the plant on April 6! Yes, that is very soon!

PLEASE spend today completing your page and proofing everyone else's page.

Send me an email or respond to this blog post about what you need to complete your page.

Ooops...forgot to pick up the CD from Matthews. Will pick it up today after my meetng and place them in a folder.

Other Photos Needed?

Soccor Team Photos: Maria, please check with the coach...I can take this photo on Friday.
Baseball Team Photo: Supposed to take today at 3:00.
Swim Team: have photos but team photos still needed.
Spring Sport Honors: take Friday beginning of 2B.
Others?

Other Assignments:

Begin drafting your magazine layouts. I do not have the magazine pages created, so please just create a two-page document in InDesign. You may copy/paste your work into the magazine pages when I get Mr. Tod to help me create them!
Next week, we will begin developing theme ideas for the 2009-10 yearbook. Please form teams of two and be creative! Need to develop a cover, a divider page, a two-page spread with thematic elements, and any other pages to ensure your theme wins!

Questions? Concerns? Comments?

Please post a comment. I will check here this evening and respond.

You are a great team! Keep up the great work! Must have another pizza/cheesecake party soon!

Challenge after Challenge

2009-01-18T20:43:00.002-06:00

What a team! Can we overcome the challenges? Yes, we can!

Despite our server being down and our not being able to get to our yearbook files, we will meet our next deadline!

Just keep working those interviews and taking those pics!

Good job!

Too many deadlines!

2008-12-10T16:28:00.002-06:00

On Thursday, we must work diligently to complete Deadline 2 Final Proofs and Deadline 3 Proofs. This is two test grades for you!

What if you do not get your pages completed? I will be here until 4:30 today...please make plans to stay and complete your deadline requirements.

Thanks for selling so many yearbooks and meeting your goal.

Upon submission of Deadline 3, you will have completed nearly tw0-thirds of this history book we are creating!

Thanks for you time and dedication!

New Assignments!

2008-10-09T09:49:00.003-05:00

Let's make more money! Please pick up your receipt booklet to sell yearbooks.

Prices:

$35.00 each
$40.00 with name on the book
Price increases to $40 in December, with no option of having the name stamped on the book.

Please check the printout on the board and sign-up to check with the businesses who bought last year. We need to finalize business ad sales so that we can determine the final page count.

Which one of you would like to win a yearbook for selling the most yearbooks?

A Note of Caution...

2008-10-09T09:48:00.001-05:00

Please...PLEASE...please, return senior folders to the box!

I am finding folders and text in places they should not be!

Thanks for your help with this!

Deadline One Is Gone!

2008-10-08T18:52:00.003-05:00

Wow! The yearbook is nearly 1/4 completed! What an amazing group!

This is the earliest I have ever uploaded a deadline, and it's all thanks to you and your diligence in completing your pages.

Thank you! We need to celebrate. What do you think?

Your Diligence Has "Paid" Off!

2008-09-10T22:48:00.002-05:00

Wow! I don't have the totals yet...will have by class on Friday...but I am so impressed with this group! Business ad sales have been grand!

This is going to be a great year!

Let's celebrate on Friday!

Thanks for being you!

Time to Make "Sum" Money!

2008-08-29T17:58:00.002-05:00

For three days the Pioneer Yearbook staff have hit the streets raising money to pay for this historical document called a yearbook that we work hard to create each year.

While many balk at paying $35 for such a book, those of us in yearbook-land understand that our public is getting quite the deal, for each book costs the staff approximately $95...yes, $60 more per book than what each of our customers pay.

Therefore, for the first two-to-three weeks of school, we raise money by selling ads to our local businesses. Many thanks to those who are supporting us!

Our other two fundraisers are the senior ad and the sale of the books. Yes, our goal is to raise $35,000-$40,000 between now and the end of November!

Now a thanks to a great staff who are working so hard...making money so that we can sit down and work on this book with that stress relieved.

Keep up the great work!

Ladders You Can't Climb

2008-08-18T23:21:00.003-05:00

Just a reminder...before Wednesday, complete the ladder and determine if the Fabulous Formula was utilized within last year's book.

Day 1 Reflection Time: Take a moment to ponder...why in yearbook jargon would they use the term ladder to refer to such a document as the one you are completing? It does not look like a ladder, nor would I trust that piece of paper to hold me up!

So why? Why call it a ladder?

Let's discuss this during class next time...shall we?

Also....I am really looking forward to working with each of you as we develop this "new creation"!

Attention, Seniors!

2008-08-17T21:27:00.000-05:00

Have you had your senior composite taken at Matthew's Photography? Yes? Thanks so much!

If you have not had your pic taken, please call 698-1566...asap! Deadline has been extended to August 22. Thanks!

Deadline to purchase a senior ad is Friday, Sept. 5. Forms/contracts are available in Mrs. Gillmore's room.

Congratulations upon becoming a senior!