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1 | CONTENT IDEAS FOR YEARBOOKS 2022 & Beyond... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3 | This list of story inspirations is brought to you by Jostens creative accounts team and Ambassadors Casey Nichols and Margaret Sorrows. This list is updated often. It's intended to share visual and verbal story ideas for use in finishing your 2022 yearbook (or other media), for extended editions or for coverage in your 2021 book. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | We strongly suggest looking at designs in the Community templates section of Page Designer, and the Page Surfer "Candid" category. If you want to share ideas, email margaret.sorrows@jostens.com. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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6 | TOPIC | ANGLE/FOCUS | ANGLE/FOCUS | ANGLE/FOCUS | PHOTO IDEAS | PHOTO IDEAS | Sample Spread Ideas | |||||||||||||||||||
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8 | A-Z | Your school or community) from A-Z | Alphabetical A-Z of people features | Trends A-Z | Shapes or things that look like letters | Letters from signs that are familiar around the school community | Edina HS | Midlothian Heritage HS | ||||||||||||||||||
9 | Administration | Adaptitng to change | Day in the life | What is summer like for adminstration | Admin in hallways of school, greeting students, etc. | Westlake HS | Wando HS | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | Advice for others | How to best handle... | Academic advice | Student life advice | Coronado HS NV 4 | Dunwoody HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Alexa | Best Alexa tips (or Google) | Favorite Alexa games | Alexa alarms, time and style | - the Alexa (or whatever device) in a student's home | |||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Amazon | Ordering online | What are people ordering? | What to do with all the boxes (How to?) | Photo with food package | Using Amazon app on phone | ||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Anniversaries | When does a relationship desere a celebration | Best anniversary gift? | Male job, female, or either? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Anxiety | Keeping minds healthy | Exercises, meditation, etc.- what helps most? | What makes you anxious? | Student-created artwork | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | AP classes | How are people keeping a study schedule? | People taking 1 vs. People taking most | Compare/contrast to regular course | Flash cards, flash card apps | Students doing DBQs (in class) | Beebe HS | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | Apps on your phone | most addicting (games, social media, other) | which apps help with academics? | if you could make an app, what would it do? | Cell phone in student hands | Astronaut HS | East Bakersfield HS | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | Art | Student art projects from home | Ordering art supplies online | rough draft to final project | Student-taken art photos | Students working on art, shot by others | Coronado HS NV 2 | Cretin-Derham Hall MN 1 | Coppell HS | |||||||||||||||||
18 | Artists | Profile students who create from home | Stories on unique/different art forms | Artists explain their process or their art | ||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | ASL | Student doing the word with their hand & what it means | Should it count as a second language credit? | Families who use ASL | ||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Athletes | First team in their sport they played on | Origin stories- how they started their sport | How their training helps them relieve stress | - student(s) working out | Coronado HS NV 3 | Clayton HS | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | Authors | Favorite authors and why | Favorrie books and why | |||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Auto repair | DIY- who taught you | Facing the cost of car car | Ways to learn | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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24 | Babysitting | Are people babysitting for other families? | Are people babysitting for family? Why? | People with babysittting business | ||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Ballet | Getting your pointe shoes letter | Compare/contrast ballet to other dance styles | Involving males in ballet | Westlake HS | |||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Bedtime | What time do you go to sleep and why? | Nighttime routine | Last sound you hear before sleep | Sheldon HS | Whitney HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Best/Worst of ... | Online learning, Covid, social distancing | Local hangouts/ eating options | School schedules | Rogers HS | |||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Bicycles | Returning to bikes as exercise | Getting a new bike | Story of when/how you learned too ride | Portraits of students with bikes | - students biking | Santiago HS | |||||||||||||||||||
29 | Bike riding | 4-Wheeling, mountain biking | Family bike rides | Electrric bike trend | Riding bike, fixing bike, standing with bike | Whitney HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Binge this | Movies, books, TV series, videos | snack foods, healthy foods, making foods | hobbies you lose yourself in | television screen | kitchen counter with foods | Judson HS | |||||||||||||||||||
31 | Bingo card | School year events | Individual faces | Places on campus | Image of the card empty, filled by different students | Bryant HS | <-monopoly, not bingo...but could be adapted | |||||||||||||||||||
32 | Birthday celebrations | How did you celebrate without friends/family? | How birthday celebrations change as you age | What were quarantine birthdays like? | Birthday cake with candles, cake slice, cupcake with a candle | Rocklin HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Bitmojis | Classroom/locker/online school space | Student/staff bitmojis | Sending bitmoji messages | students trying to mimic their bitmojis | Astronaut HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Books to read | Young adult novels | Classics or books assigned in class | What other reading materials did you fill your time with? | Stacks of books, student eyes looking over top of open book | Idaho Falls ID 1 | Judson HS | |||||||||||||||||||
35 | Breaks | When break feels more like school, how do you change things up? | How do you create breaks in your day? | How has your attitude toward holidays/breaks changed? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Bubble | Who's in your bubble and why? | Who did you get to hang out with in person? | Why your community is a "bubble" | 1 person in center of others, 6 feet apart, shot from above | old friends photos, submitted | Midlothian Heritage HS | |||||||||||||||||||
37 | Bucket Lists | This year | In school | In my lifetime | large bucket, items written on list | Alpharetta HS GA 1 | Fenton HS MI 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
38 | Businesses, student | Students running their own business | If you did create a business, what would it/you do? | How do you & your circle support small, local, student-owned businesses? | Wando HS | |||||||||||||||||||||
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40 | Calendar | How do you stay organized? (agenda, daily planner, monthly cal, phone) | Sharing digital calenders | |||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Camera roll | Social media style invite, show us the 6th photo on your camera roll (or any number) | Subject you have the most in your camera roll | photo or screenshot of photo album grid | ||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | cancelled | sports that had games cancelled (COVID, smoke, etc.) | Travel plans that were cancelled | Cancelled classes as enrollment changed | ||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Cardboard cutouts | Students creating themselves as fans to support athletes | From professional teams | Flat Stanley adventures | photo using cardboard cutout, big heads, etc. | Loudon Valley HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Cars | Profiles of students with their cars | How did you get your first car? | How do you know it's your car? | Dos Pueblos HS | Palos Verdes HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Chalk Sidewalk Art | Instagram example here | Positive messages | - students doing sidewalk art | Coronado HS NV 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Challenges of Zoom work flow | Mowers, interruptions from siblings, pets | typical Zoom problems students face | typical zoom interruptions teachers face | over-the-shoulder shot of screen | Providence HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Cleaning bedrooms | Organization | Where you hide your stuff? | Everything or nothing in place? | - the hiding places full of stuff, - clean bedroms | |||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Coffee | Favorite coffee/study spots | How do you like your coffee? | Coffee or tea? | Santiago HS | |||||||||||||||||||||
49 | College | What plans for trips were cancelled? | Did colleges offer virtual visits? | College acceptance and applications updates | students in college gear | Loudoun Valley HS | Whitney HS | |||||||||||||||||||
50 | Community | Helping neighbors, tutoring younger kids | Service projects / charity events | Service-oriented clubs - what are they doing now? | student submitted - doing their community service | Zionsville HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Compare/contrast | Life during/after pandemic | Different years of school | Morning vs. nights, etc | ||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Community Service | Student individual projects | Group/team projects | Students involved in churches or other | ||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Concerts | First post quarantine shows | First concert experience | Concert bucket list | ||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Conditioning | Blended coverage of athletes conditioning | How to with sports specific training | Cardio vs. weight training | ||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Contact | How are you keeping up with friends- screenshots | Survey on methods students use to keep in touch | Acronyms for today's teens: BRB, KIT, etc. | Screenshots of Facetime, Zoom, Hangouts, etc. | Coppell HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Cooking with parents | How family mealtimes changed | Passing on recipes from parents to children | Lessons on cooking from parent/grandparent | students cooking with parents and family | |||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Corn Hole | Yard games with friends/family | Who's your cornhole (or other game) partner | Metaphor: Cornhole is like ... | - a corn hole game board with beanbags, - students playing | |||||||||||||||||||||
58 | COVID-19 medical test | Did you get tested? Tell us about that experience. | Infograph, number of times tested | Describe test in 6 words | .gov sites allow your use of images (still credit them, though) https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-voices/fdas-ongoing-work-support-and-advance-covid-19-diagnostic-test-accuracy-and-availability | |||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Craft projects | What craft projects did you do to occupy your time? | Sewing alone, or in groups | Specialty craftss | - completed crafts | East Bakersfield HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Cribs | Did you clean up your bedroom? | What features of your room are your favorites? | Do you share a room? If so, who shares with you? | clean bedroom, messy room, coolest parts of the room | |||||||||||||||||||||
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62 | Daily schedule | Share various students' daily schedules | Staff daily schedule | Feature on athletes schedules | - student planners or schedules | Loudon Valley HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Day in the Life | Random days, different students | Mulltiple students on the same day | Staff features on day iin the life | students in various stages of their days | Round Rock HS TX 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Dear COVID-19 - 2=2 Words | Write a letter to the pandemic. | Write a 22-word statement to the pandemic | handwritten letter from student | Judson HS | Loudoun Valley HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Devices | How many digital devices do you own | Rank your digital devices | What one digital device is a game changer? | pile of digital devices | |||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Diet | How did eating habits change? | Did you start any special diets (i.e. Keto) | How do you lose/gain weight? | plate with food on it | |||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Distance Learning | How did the school accomplish distance learning? Policies on grading, work, etc. | Student reactions to distance learning experience | Students who prefer virtual school and why | Dos Pueblos HS | Fenton HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
68 | DIY | Remaking your room and other home projects | Haircuts | Learning to repair on Youtube or other | ||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Dogs | Did you adopt a quarantine puppy? | Families with long time dogs | Families with two or more dogs | Rogers HS | |||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Door Dash | Which restaurants are most popular? | What's the cost? | - a door dash delivered meal | Providence HS | |||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Drive through | Which locations are open? When? | Local "hot" spots | car at drive through window | ||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Driver's Training | Adjustments because of COVID pandemic | Funny stories from Driver's Training | Anecdotal stories about the experience | student behind wheel, student in rearview mirror | |||||||||||||||||||||
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74 | Eating habits | New eating habits, changes in eating or snacking habits | New recipes families or students tried | When do you eat? | - food or of students snacking/eating | Alpharetta HS GA 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Essay Writing | From prompt to final essay...essay writing steps/strategies | Brain dumps/brainstorming | Tips for writing better essays (quotes) | Providence HS | |||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Every... | day I ... | morning I... / night I ... | time I play... (pre-game rituals) | Edina HS | |||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Everyone has a story | Senior profiles written in first person | Students sharing who they are and what's important to them | Q&A with randomly-chosen students | environmental portraits | selfies? | Harrisonburg HS | Palos Verdes HS | ||||||||||||||||||
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79 | Face masks | Families had face masks- how were they used? | Face mask fashion statements/ political statements/spirit | Photo collections | wearing the mask, hanging from car mirror, hanging from stick shift, etc. | Lake Brantley HS | Whitney HS | |||||||||||||||||||
80 | Have students submit 22ns photo on their camera roll | % students who have Facebook | Ever purchased anything on Facebook? | Facebook live events, screen capture | ||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Facetime | How did you use Facetime? | Group chats vs. one on one | Helping friends dress on Facetime | - student using Facetime | |||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Fashions & Costs | Outfits | Amazon versus In Store | Favorite pieces / Staples of the wardrobe | clothing laid out on bed, clothing hanging, studnt wearing the outfit/accessories | Alpharetta HS GA 3 | Bryant HS | |||||||||||||||||||
83 | Fear | Fears about coming back to school? | Fear about returning because it has been so long? | What is the biggest fear you can share? Quotes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | First day of school | Pictures, new clothes | dress up or dress down? | What time did you get up? | alarm clock on phone, first day outfits submitted, clothing with tags on it | Providence HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Fishing | Families fishing trips- photos | Lake vs. stream vs. deep sea- quotes | Friends and favorite fishing spots | submitted fishing, baiting the line, caught fish | Westlake HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Food delivery | Which one do you use and why? | Stragest place you've had food delivered? | Worst/funny delivery experiences | food delivery items | Providence HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Freedom | What's the first thing you did when quaratine ended? | How much do your parents give you? | person arms open, head back, sun shining in silhouette | ||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Frustrations | Stress relieving activities to break out of frustration | What about school frustrates you most? | How athletes deal with frustration | person "pulling out" hair, making frustrated face | |||||||||||||||||||||
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90 | Gamers | What are the most popular digital games? | Playing others on the internet? | people playing internet games | East Bakersfield HS | |||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Games | Which games did you or your family play? | On phone, online, on disc, or on a table? | Return of board games | people playing board games | Bryant HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Gas | Gas prices have dropped- what are the prices? | Do friends contribut for gas? | Fill up or buy in smaller amounts? | person filling up car, shot of gas pump | |||||||||||||||||||||
93 | On any given day or week, what are the top Google searches? | How did you use Google while you were at home? | Is Google your only search engine? | For example today's trending is here | ||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Google meet | How did you use Google Hangouts? | Did you like Meet change to 49 faces on screen? | Meet vs. Zoom | Screen captures of hangouts | Edina HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Grades online | How often do you check them? | Do your parents check them? How often | Which teacher is best at updating | ||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Graduation (Virtual) | What are your plans after graduation- now- have they changed? | How will your distant family help you celebrate (virtual party via meeting app?) | Seniors trying on cap & gown | Bryant HS | |||||||||||||||||||||
97 | Grandparents | Main concerns for their health | How did students keep in touch with grandparents? | What did you inherit from them (physically or characteristics) | family photos, students with grandparents | Loudoun Valley HS | ||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Gratitude | What/who you are thankful for? | Quotes of gratitude to be published | Coppell HS | East Bakersfield HS | |||||||||||||||||||||
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100 | Hair | Home haircuts/trims | Trend toward colorful hair | changes in own hair style | shots from back of head and front of head and side of head | Desert Vista HS |