The Colophon - Balfour Yearbooks Blog

Are you missing the Olympics yet? One of the best aspects of the two-week sporting bonanza is the storytelling. NBC spends months researching, filming and editing features on the athletes.

Every trade and profession has guidelines that can be stated in bumper sticker-like clarity.

Accounting:  Debits on the left, credits on the right.Mechanics:  Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.Landscaping:

Whether or not you include feature stories or alternative copy in your yearbook, your students will need to write headlines and captions for identification and reference. Well-written headlines draw

Instagram, Pinterest, Vine, Snapchat, memes, emoticons, etc. Why are we talking with pictures? Did anyone poll language arts, English and journalism teachers? Did anyone ask them if words still

by Nancy Ruth Patterson  1991 Inductee, National Scholastic Journalism Hall of Fame

Helen Keller taught me how to teach writing.