Content Gathering
Coverage Ideas
It’s a challenge to reinvent coverage this spring when sports and activities have been canceled. This list offers ideas for topics, angles and photo gathering that can be used even though students aren’t physically in school.
Story Starters
The following Story Starters and topic ideas can be used to generate interview questions and photo requests to fill your remaining yearbook pages.
- Hallway Life (life between classes)
- Parking Lot
- Cars
- Fun and Games
- Snacks
- Bedrooms
- Backpacks
- Dreams
- Studying
- Exercise
- Favorite clothing
- Monday blahs (or Stuck At Home Blahs)
- Hanging in the quad
- Lunchroom Fun
- Best Friends
- School Spirit
- ‘Bored’ Games
Interviewing Assignment
Review the components of effective interviews with students; if desired, use the Introduction to Interviewing presentation. When using for remote learning, challenge students to think of questions that touch on the experience of having activities canceled or altered.
Open-Ended Questions
Students will learn the difference between open-and-closed-ended questions. When using for remote learning, have staffers think of questions they can ask through social media, Facetime, surveys or text message.