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You must have attended and witnessed directly a festival in your residence, or you could have part of the event, whether you are part of the steering committee or even the main players at the event. There are a variety of festivals, including the modern music festival or music festival featuring traditional music, comedy, magic, and so on. You can work directly on this event, such as drama, you could be the main performer. Or a magic show with a master magic show and entertain audiences. You must be very happy and a little proud to be part of the event. Your experience will increase. The impression you get from the festival can you tell your friends. And from there will arise an unforgettable memory.

Among the festival you can use as your entertainment destination in this year is the Reading Festival. You must be a witness behind this festival. Did not miss T in the Park festival presenting a variety of spectator interest to you that unfortunately if you miss it. This year was a solid year to the festivals that you can make your entertainment as a container, there is also the Leeds Festival. Therefore, what are you waiting message immediately and have tickets for leeds festival before it runs out. This festival will be a beautiful memory that is unforgettable for you.

Myyearbookbuilder

Next Generation Technology for the School Yearbook from OdysseyInteractive.com

 

 

Introduction

 

The high school yearbook has been a cherished tradition for more than 150 years. It serves as a snap shot in time of the high school experience. It is a treasured memoir that gets more valuable with time and is a delight for future generations who want to see how mom or dad looked “back in the day.”  The ritual of students signing each others yearbooks and wishing one another a bright future or recalling a memorable story is a custom that makes the yearbook more than a collection of images and text.

 

A Revolution in Yearbook Design

 

For as long as the modern high school yearbook has been in use, there have been very few improvements on its features or content. Most yearbooks focus primarily on the school activities. Each student gets a head shot, usually in black and white that is not a whole lot bigger than a passport photograph.  Only the most active, successful or lucky students are in more than one photograph.  The yearbook is organized by a yearbook committee but does not allow individual participation by all students. 

 

With the revolution in on-line production, digital photography, compressed digital and audio files and the accessibility of home, school and library computers, an opportunity now exists to make the high school yearbook a significantly more dynamic archive of precious memories. Yearbooks are no longer constrained by the cost of color photographs, physical size of the year book or production schedules that prematurely end the recording of school year events. The removal of these constraints has unleashed yearbook creativity. The yearbook can now be delivered in CD or DVD format where students can navigate to their favorite experiences, classes, friends or activities.

 

Customization

 

Myyearbookbuilder by Odysseyinteractive.com is unique in that it is a true yearbook with all of the features we have come to expect. It is not merely a collage of photographs on a CD set to music.  It is a fully navigable book on CD or DVD that includes all of the school organizations, activities and events that took place during the year. In addition, each student has a profile page where they can upload their own color photographs and share their own unique experience. They can describe their favorite subject, favorite moment and other notable experiences.  In addition, they can invite others to join their network of buddies and allow selected friends to sign their pages.

 

Multimedia

 

The availability of audio recorders, digital cameras and handheld camcorders has greatly increased the range of material that is available for use when recording memories.  Myyearbookbuilder by OdysseyInteractive.com allows school administrators, teachers and students to upload video clips of key events such as the game winning touchdown, a Shakespearian soliloquy or a solo performance in the school play.  Audio files of best wishes, debate footage or the school song can also be posted.  High quality color photos can be uploaded and can be stepped through for a more complete picture of the students’ year.  Double-clicking pictures allows them to be expanded and printed at any time in the future.  Allowing students to personalize and expand their involvement in the yearbook creation process is a surefire way to boost the number of students that will purchase a yearbook at the end of the school year.

 

Production Schedules

 

The timeline for traditional yearbook for most schools usually ends in the February or March time frame.  This is due to the time it takes to print a traditional yearbook.  This does not allow inclusion of spring sports and other significant events such as prom.  In addition, it places the yearbook committee in a time crunch, forcing them to work hard at the start of the year instead of allowing them to spread the workload over the entire year.  On-line production, coupled with CD or DVD distribution, allows for significantly more material to be delivered in a much faster timeframe and for a significantly lower cost.  Yearbooks can be mass produced in 2-3 weeks, allowing the yearbook committee additional months to market the yearbook, sell advertising to local businesses and include more events of the school year up to and including graduation, if desired.  In addition, schools will not have to make minimum order commitments and quantities can be adjusted at any time.

 

Fundraising

 

One of the most important aspects of the yearbook has been its use as a fundraising too. However, the traditional yearbook has ceased to be an effective fundraiser. Increasing production costs have forced schools to either raise the cost of the yearbook or cut back on the number of color photographs or size of the yearbook.  This has resulted in reduced sales and with that, a decreased ability to sell advertising to local businesses. Significant commitments are required by the printing houses, sometimes leaving the school with a supply of books for which there are no buyers.  Myyearbookbuilder by Odysseyinteractive.com generates a very appealing, high-impact, personalized product that has significantly more full color content than the traditional yearbook.  Allowing the students to construct their own pages increases their interest in the project and assures the school that these actively engaged student will in fact purchase a yearbook.  A variety of full-color advertising options are available to local businesses that will allow them to be showcased many times throughout the yearbook.  The school runs no risk of being left with unsold copies as there is no minimum commitment and the quantity can be changed up until the day before CDs or DVDs are produced.  In addition, extra or replacement CDs or DVDs can be produced at any time in the future, a feature unheard of with traditional yearbooks.  The school never has too many or too few!  While advertising revenue had traditionally been used to offset the production costs of the yearbook, it now can be a true fundraiser.

 

The cost of producing a yearbook online is significantly less than a traditional yearbook.  The cost to the school for a finished CD or DVD with all of these features is $25, for 1 or 1,000.  This allows the school to sell these to their students for $35-45 and make between $10 and $20 per CD or DVD.  When paired with the advertising revenue, this is a significant fundraising opportunity.

 

Security

 

Myyearbookbuilder by Odysseyinteractive.com is first and foremost a secure environment for students and faculty to capture memories and experiences.  An in-progress yearbook has a number of security features.  Only the students and administrators of a yearbook can access the website hosting their school yearbook.  The students can edit only their own pages.  However, they can view the entire yearbook in progress and can see the pages of other students as they are being constructed.  The administrators have access to all of the school’s common pages to populate them with photos, text and video.  In addition, administrators can view and edit any student page.  Students can post pictures to their pages, but they are placed in quarantine and are not viewable until they have been approved by the administrator.  When the administrator logs in, they can immediately see all of the pictures that have been submitted.  A simple click approves or rejects each of the pictures.  In the same fashion, the administrator can approve all video clips and all audio files.  Students can sign each others yearbooks but a signature must be a
pproved by the receiving student before it will be displayed on their page.  Students can forward inappropriate signatures to the administrator for action.  All text on all pages is monitored by a sophisticated content management filter that screens for inappropriate language.  This filter is state of the art and is updated on a constant basis to be current with all new terms.

 

Summary

 

In twenty years, when today’s student sits down with his or her family to view their yearbook, they will have a true time capsule of how they looked and acted, who their friends were, how they spoke and who they were as students.  They will have access to a wealth of content that allows them to revisit their high school days in full color.  Learn more about Myyearbookbuilder at OdysseyInteractive.com.

In the first part of this article we studied about how email changed our lives forever. In a way email made all of us easily accessible but also added lot of stress in our lives. It is said that Begum Noorjahan, queen of Mughal Emperor Jehangir had trained pigeons that carried her messages. She had no stress about how they reached their destination and when. Whereas we get frantic if an expected email does not arrive in time. This age of information technology has made many medical professionals who treat stress related diseases much richer.

The next quantum jump was with online chat. You will find many people who are constantly on the look out of friends who are online for chat. Why? So that they can discuss something with them while doing their work at the same time. Most of such chats are of no use except that they are great stress builders and work spoilers. Earlier we used to go out to meet friends. Now a days we join chat rooms and chat with people about whose real identity we have no clue. A man may be acting as a woman and vice versa.

Somehow we are forgetting our purpose of life because we are being bombarded with technology. We have forgotten that there is something like joy, fun, reflection, and peace. There is no peace in lives of most of those who are online. The stress effects are very dangerous. It may cause depression, cardiac problems, affect immune system and play havoc with our health. But we are not concerned because most of us are busy with our personal computers. A time may soon come when more and more people will meet their friends only online and may not meet them physically for years.

In the next part of this article we will find out about how discussion boards may be causing stress to most of us.