Join our Yearbook Webinar Series throughout the 2020-2021 school year to hear from journalism, photography, and yearbook industry experts. The webinar topics will be relevant to the yearbook building process; starting with yearbook theme selection, to photography tips, and we will even guide you through creating your yearbook index.
Upcoming Webinars
More webinar opportunities are coming soon!
Past Webinar Recordings by Category
Get to know Lifetouch Yearbooks:
New! [Q&A] Ask an Industry Expert → View Recording
During this webinar, our hosts answered questions submitted by Yearbook Advisers and revealed industry tips that will help you build your yearbook with confidence.
New! Let’s kick off the 2020-2021 School Year → View Recording
Join our first webinar of the year to get some ideas and essential information for the yearbook program.
New! Welcome to (or back to!) the Yearbook Website → View Recording
In this webinar, we will showcase some of the new website features you will see in 2020.
FAQ’s → View Recording
Join this webinar to check out new features, common questions we’ve been asked, and as always, uncover new tips and tricks.
Distance learning support:
New! Hitting the reset button → View Recording
Do you find yourself saying, “I feel stuck”, “My staff isn’t focused”, or “I don’t know if I can do this”? Join Brittany to hit the reset button and regain your staff’s engagement, focus, and motivation.
New! Connecting Creatively → View Recording
2020 National Yearbook Week Series – Amanda and Sam will share 21 out of the box ideas to stay connected creatively in order to build, promote and elevate your yearbook and program.
New! Covering a Yearbook During COVID-19 → View Recording
Your book’s theme, structure and content must reflect the modifications your students and teachers experience. Join us for a webinar to discuss how to create our yearbook in a time of uncertainty.
Ask an Editor → View Recording
Yearbook Editors Ava, Nicole, and Lillian, will host a live discussion on topics like engaging staffers, planning for next year’s yearbook, and creative ideas for 2020 distribution.
Creating Allies in Your School Community → View Recording
Ever feel like the only people who care about the yearbook are within the four walls of your classroom? Learn how to break down those walls and get your entire school involved.
Changing Times → View Recording
Join us on our first-ever panel to hear ideas for filling your remaining yearbook pages, how to create a community from a distance and more.
The Creative Commons: Using images from the web → View Recording
Join us to learn how to tell the story visually when you can’t be there to capture it.
Adding deeper coverage through design → View Recording
Learn how to plan the content of your design to add depth to your coverage.
At-Home Learning Ideas → View Recording
Join us for our second live panel to learn about resources Lifetouch provides and fun ideas Advisers across the US and Canada are currently doing!
Leading through Change → View Recording
Your presenter, Andy Zimney, will share key lessons from his work as a team culture coach to explore the unique behaviors and practices that teams use to successfully navigate ambiguous and unknown waters.
Could COVID-19 Create Different Ways to Lead? → View Recording
Join a panel discussion featuring the President of Lifetouch, Greg Hintz, school culture expert and nationally certified counselor, JC Pohl, and our National Yearbook Executive, Casey Johnson, to discuss the value of inspiring students and staff to be problem solvers and thought leaders during these challenging times.
Designing publications → View Recording
Whether you design newspapers, magazines or yearbooks, using design principles will help you create outstanding looks for your publications.
Connect Your Community During the COVID-19 → View Recording
Join school culture expert and nationally certified counselor, JC Pohl, as he discusses how your yearbooks, student news outlets, and leadership programs can be used to build school culture and empower student voice during these challenging times.
Learn more about yearbook building:
New! Meet our yearbook cover design team: Creative Services → View Recording
This short webinar will introduce you to our Creative Services team members and educate you on the process of building your yearbook cover with Creative Services.
New! Surviving your first year as a YBA → View Recording
2020 National Yearbook Week Series – Join Lani to get some guidance on how to navigate your first year.
Indexing
Watch this four-part series to learn the ropes of Indexing.
Part 1 > Get to Know Indexing
Part 2 > Indexing: Tagging Images, Text Boxes, and Portraits
Part 3 > Generating the Index
Part 4 > Meet the Student Frequency Report
Themes & Covers → View Recording
Looking to design your yearbook but not sure how to get started? Let us help you out! Explore our new themes, how to apply them to your yearbook, and more.
Ladder Diagram → View Recording
Explore how a Ladder Diagram can help you stay organized.
Managing and Flowing Your Portraits. You got this! → View Recording
Let’s walk through how to flow your portraits and manage your portrait images.
Get Creative! Custom Layouts and Master Pages → View Recording
Are you looking to create your own Custom Layouts and Master Pages? Or are you wondering what these are? Well, then this is the webinar for you.
Deeper dive into page design:
New! Tell your story Part 1 of 2 → View Recording
2020 National Yearbook Week Series – Join us for this two-part series on telling stories with words and photos.
New! Tell your story Part 2 of 2 → View Recording
2020 National Yearbook Week Series – Before Storytelling Part 2, attendees will create designs based on the stories featured in Part 1. During Part 2, we will discuss our choices of dominant photos on both designs and see how well the dominants connect with the primary headlines.
Enhance Your Pages → View Recording
You’re deep in the day to day of designing your Yearbook. Pages are coming together and you love your candids but how do you bring your page spreads to the next level?
Yearbook ideas from the professional’s → View Recording
Ideas are everywhere. From shopping malls to magazines to the internet, we can inspiration for yearbook spreads, modules, and coverage topics if we “think yearbook” all the time.
Adding deeper coverage through design → View Recording
Learn how to plan the content of your design to add depth to your coverage.
Just the right type → View Recording
Typography can make or break your yearbook. Learn the “rules” of typography, why they’re important to our readers, and, sometimes, how to break those rules for a reason.
Designing publications → View Recording
Whether you design newspapers, magazines or yearbooks, using design principles will help you create outstanding looks for your publications.
Photography & community Share Sites:
New! Improve Cell Phone Photography in 7 Simple Steps → View Recording
2020 National Yearbook Week Series – The best camera is the one you have with you. Certified Journalism Educator Derek Schroeder offers a few tips and tricks to take better photos with your camera phone.
Images, Tagging, and Organization – Oh my! → View Recording
Pictures are the key to a great yearbook. So how do I upload them and how do I stay organized?
BONUS! Introducing Share Sites for Yearbooks (U.S. only) → View Recording
Get to know about our new Share Sites offering and how it will help you capture yearbook images from your community.
Selling & marketing your yearbook:
Yearbook Sales + The YB Website = BFF → View Recording
Looking to sell more yearbooks? We have tools to help. Learn how to set-up Sales Tracker, Activate YBPay and meet our awesome tool called Ad Builder.
Market Your Yearbook & Manage Orders → View Recording
This is your opportunity to learn more about marketing and managing yearbook orders! Join us to walk through marketing ideas for your school.
Marketing the Yearbook From a Distance → View Recording
Now that many of us are home how do we market the yearbook from a distance? Join our third panel where we will explore fun and creative ways to do just that!
