Student Publications

Students in the magazine publication class will use Adobe InDesign software, the industry standard for multi-page publications, to ultimately create the school's annual NCTE literary magazine. Under the direction of the adviser and student leaders, members of this class will learn to work both independently and as part of a team to collect and critique magazine submissions, create an overall design plan, design individual pages, and publish, promote, and sell the magazine. In addition to learning the basics of InDesign, students will also understand the fundamentals of digital design as well as develop skills in critiquing, editing and publishing.

This year-long course will provide creative students with a digital forum through which they can practice telling the stories of the people and issues that are important to them. Using the industry standard Adobe Creative Suites, students will learn design, layout, photography, videography, and journalistic writing techniques for print, online, social media, and other 21st century platforms. Students will explore and create in a fast-paced, structured yet free-flowing environment that is both collaborative and individually focused for the ultimate goal of publication.

Under the direction of the adviser and student leaders, students in this class will work together as a team to create, produce, sell and distribute the school’s yearbook. They will have the opportunity to develop skills in sales, marketing, communication, photography, graphic design, writing, interviewing and editing. Students will be held to high standards and will learn life skills as they are forced to work in a fast-paced, multi-faceted environment where meeting deadlines and managing one’s time are essential to accomplishing the goal of producing a yearbook. Students selected for Yearbook will be expected to sell advertising for the current year’s book and encouraged to attend a Yearbook Camp during the summer prior to the beginning of the school year.