This year, I chose to revamp how my staff chose the theme for their book. Instead of coming up with a list of theme ideas and then teaching each component of how you develop a theme, I decided to have my students choose from a set of themes they brought with them at the beginning of the year and work as a group to come up with a presentation that would sell their classmates on their theme idea.
It worked pretty well.
We had four themes presented, including fonts, tenative layouts, graphics, and ladders. Of these four themes, the students chose to use the theme "Soundtrack of our Lives." They didn't stop there, though. They decided to keep some aspects of other theme presentations, as they really liked some of the ideas on individual levels even if they didn't like the theme itself.
I think students chose the theme based on more of a full picture of what that theme would look like, rather than on what it might, possibly, in a perfect world look like. They got to see how the theme would work on dividers and other pages. It gave them a full look at the theme in the book, and I feel it was a tremendous success.
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