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Had similar issues here. We had to re-enroll quite a few after upgrading to iOS6. We had to run the enrollment process several times on a couple of them. We could not pinpoint the cause of this. We even tried the problematic ones in different spots in our network to rule out Casper’s suggestion that…

Most of the yearbook companies now have online, templated programs for creating yearbooks. The difference between the publishers is pretty nominal; the difference is in the service for your individual yearbook rep and whether they will provide workshops or other types of support. Look into Freisens, Balfour and Walsworth and see what they will offer…

We use Adobe InDesign and our seniors learn the program and design the entire book over the course of their senior year. They will all have had a Digital Photograhy course and have used Photoshop in a separate course prior to taking yearbook, though. It takes a fair amount of energy and time to implement,…

We use Jostens. I have a class of 12 girls each year who take yearbook as their elective, Sept. to mid-March. They do everything from theme selection, to organizing the order of the 80 pages, to layout for each double-page spread, all the photography (except for the individual class photos), image adjustments and enhancements in…

We installed 5 of them in different classrooms over a span of 3-5 years and they are doing nothing but collecting dust now. None of the teachers like to use them (either because they see them as being too much of a hassle to use or they are still stuck in the stone-age). We have…

I can echo a LOT of what I’ve read. We piloted some SMARTBoards, not a lot of joy there. They could not be used with regular markers. Software was awful. We tried the touchscreen version over a big screen and had some success with our music department. Our art teachers rebelled against the overlay because…

Before we stuck our baby Ed tech toe into the SmartBoard pond, we went out on fact finding mission to some schools and observed how they were using the boards. In most cases it seemed like they used them as overpriced white boards. In some they complained that they liked them but that teachers needed…