Week Two: Day Ten: Friday, August 29, 2008

Week Two: Day Ten: Friday, August 29, 2008
Secret Pals
Working on the Profile
ID Cards and Staff Manuals are Complete

Secret Pals 2
We started class with Secret Pal Distrubution and then we chilled and ate for awhile.

Ariel Raudez enjoys her La Bou on Secret Pal Friday


Cupcake for Alyssa Williams.


Zoe and a Pushup


Three editors
When it's all counted I think they did the full set of ID card three times. After the first set they realized that the handwritten text by Lauren was either too small or scanned improperly so it looked way too bitmappy. Then they finshed all of them first period today adn realized that each one was titled "Pass Press" instead of "Press Pass" so they did them all over once again.

The staff manual insides got one more proofing on Thursday night and then again on Friday morning. I ran them off during third period and then Kim and Lauren stuffed the binders so they would be ready to go fourth. I think it was during third they also finished all the covers.


Stuffing the staff manuals


Getting the staff manuals ready


Getting the covers on.


Finishing up the ID cards


Final ID card preparations

Next the editors passed out the staff manuals and Zoe talked them through them page by page.

Kristy Rodenbaugh and Maddie Noble



ID Card Ceremony

Ellen cards Phil-40


Danielle and Lauren


Maddie and Ellen

Week Two: Day Nine: Thursday, August 28, 2008

Week Two: Day Nine: Thursday, August 28, 2008
Leads, Leads, Leads
Another Late Night

They each had to find five good yearbook leads in good yearbooks, then find three good leads in magazines and then write a lead about the person they are writing about. Each needs to be labeled.

And then they were to type it up on our computers and then print and save it in their folder on the server. No one got quite to the computer stage.

We also made the breakthrough with our staff id cards and it looks like those might get done for Friday. I called Rita and Lifetouch immediately brought laminator poches since we were virtually out.

Late Night 2
Zoe and Lauren stayed after practice and then eventually Kelsey came back after she went to the State Fair. We got a close to final draft of the staff manual and they solved the resolution of the ID card issues. It really was a good example of how we roll at the Decamhian. "Good enough" is neither. We have to do things until they are right. Even the ID cards and the staff manual. We actually did not leave until close to nine Also apparently Zoe sent Shelby home.

Week Two: Day Eight: Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Week Two: Day Eight: Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black
Leads
Back to School Night

The class was only an hour long so we watched a couple of funny typography videos on the internet.

Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black
http://www.cheshiredave.com/mastication/2002/07/0037a-btt.html

Then I went over leads and had them pick out five great leads from quality yearbooks.

Back to School Night
Had a great crowd. A good number of new parents. One was a student at Mira Loma when I was there and was a yearbbok editor there under Joyce Hayward. (Nagle) Another was actually on the cover of the 1981 Decamhian, the one that looks like People magazine.

Our main font is chosen and in hand.
I also worked it out with My Fonts to allow us to buy the fonts even though we had apparently not paid last year's bill. Our main font of the year will be Univers designed once again by Adrian Frutiger.

Week Two: Day Seven: Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Week Two: Day Seven: Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Basics of Copy
Naming the Fish

Eventhough I was still having projector problems, I forged on and started teaching the basics of copy. Got the the point where we brainstormed questions and then we broke into pairs to interview and come up with an angle to write about.


Zoe and the fish.


Let's name them. Pica, Helvetica, Cooper, Frutiger, Century Gothic Black, Wingding.


Claire through the bowl.

The little critters.

Week Two: Day Six: Monday, August 25, 2008

Week Two: Day Six: Monday, August 25, 2008
Colors and Captions

Even though Zoe thinks it's “boring,” we did “Shades of Personality” in class today. She may drive me nuts if I don't get a little more cooperation, but it all went well anyway.
My projector is definitely going out so the colors were anything but true.


Ellen the Orange


Shelby the Blue


Zoe the Green


Name Game posted on the wall

Week One Day Five: Friday, August 22, 2008

Week One Day Five: Friday, August 22, 2008
Radiohead at the Outside Lands Festival
San Francisco

Zoe and I drive to the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco to see Radiohead

The Background
I got started taking each of the kids to a major concert when I took Kate to see NSYNC in Philadelphia back in 2000 when we were on our family trip. In the summer of 2007 I took Robert to the Oakland Coliseum to see the Police. So it was Zoe's turn and we decided to go to see Radiohead at the Outside Lands Festival at the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park.
The original plan was to drive with Zoe's friend from water polo, Ruthie Oliver, and her father. The mother would drive and then pick us up after the show. As it unfolded, they were not going to leave until 3:30 and as I thought about it it seemed like we would never get there early enough if we left that late. I could see we wouldn't get there until nearly seven with traffic and everything.

Getting There
Amazingly we left Sacramento just a minute or two before 12. We stopped at the In-N-Out in Davis for lunch. We made it to the 5th and Mission garage by 2:15 and we were on a #5 bus heading out to the park by 2:45. We stopped at the San Francisco Center to use the restroom and bought some Mrs. Fields cookies for the concert. It took about 45 minutes to get out there. We got out at Fulton and 25th Avenue. On the bus we met a guy form Scotland who came to SF and worked out his holiday around the show. He came in on Tuesday and even drove up and spent a night up in Sacramento at the Delta King.

Into the Festival
We walked into the park and into the festival and evetually found the Lands End stage at the far end of the Polo Field. This by the way was the same place I finished my first marathon in 1980.
We set up out blanket and chilled. I went first to check out the merch and bout a $35 Outside Lands Tshirt. I went to the restroom aand then went back and then Zoe went out and bought two shirts!




We take our claim to our spot on the grass.









Steel Breeze @ 5 p.m.


Manu Chao at 6:45








Radiohead@ 8 p.m.



The crush toward the stage. Waiting for the show to start.


The show begins. "15 Step" "How come I end up where I started; How come I end up where I went wrong; Won't take my eyes off the ball again; You reel me out then you cut the string."















Radiohead Set List - Friday, August 22, 2008
1. 15 Step In Rainbows
2. Reckoner In Rainbows
3. Airbag OK Computer
4. There There Hail to the Thief
5. All I Need In Rainbows
6. Nude In Rainbows
7. Talk Show Host Romeo and Juliet soundtrack
8. National Anthem Kid A
9. The Gloaming Hail to the Thief
10. Videotape In Rainbows
11. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi In Rainbows
12. Idioteque Kid A
13. Karma Police OK Computer
14. Jigsaw Falling Into Place In Rainbows
15. Just The Bends
16. Exit Music (for a film) OK Computer
17. Bodysnatchers In Rainbows

Encore:
18. Pyramid Song Amnesiac
19. You And Whose Army? Amnesiac
20. Paranoid Android OK Computer
21. Fake Plastic Trees The Bends
22. Everything In Its Right Place Kid A

Week One: Day Four: Thursday, August 21, 2008

Week One: Day Four: Thursday, August 21, 2008
Early Thursday
First late Night.

It was our first Early Thursday. We weren't quite as well planned. I tried to collect their good/bad caption exercises and very few did it correctly. We then did another caption exercise with the blocked punt exercise. Then the editors passed out their beat folders and then broke them into groups to explain how to get better quotes when they interview. They organized a party for tomorrow and then there was about 20 minutes left over.

The girls all came back after practice and we had our first late night. Zoe and Kelsey came first and then Shelby and Lauren came. Christine made shells and we had our first meal together. I think we may try to reschedule the late nights to Thursdays so Zoe can go to youth group.
I talked through a bunch of the process. I also talked with Ann Akers and she definitely wants to come if we can work out the dates

Christine brought shells for dinner.

Week One: Day Three: Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Week One: Day Three: Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Captivating Captions

Today we took staff photos with their animal drawings. Ellen and Lauren checked their first day interviews and quotable quotes. We finished passing out the secret pal sheets and I taught captions.
How many times can I possibly see that girl at the blood drive? Also the projector went wacky and looked all yellowy.

Week One: Day Two: Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Week One: Day Two: Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Secret Pals
Name Game

We started off by filling out secret pal sheets which took a good 40 minutes or so. Everybody loves thinking about what they might get from their secret pal. Then we got them working on their Name Game drawings (Stacey the Squatch, Lauren the Lumberjack, Kelsey the King Kobra with a Kilt, Maddie the Manta Ray, Zoe the Zwiebach (?), etc.) They were some of the best ever. Then we went through everyone reciting theirs and the ones that came before and then when they were done we all chanted "Hi …" In a creepy voice. It was all pretty fun and funny. Took us up to about twenty to three so we didn't really get a chance to check their interview quotes or start captions as planned.

Shelby Thomas. Did she comb her hair?


Stacy Bonin




Maddy


Delaney the Dinosaur


Ellen the Elephant


Stacy the Sasquatch


Zoe


Name Game