Yearbook are awesome. At the end of every year you get one. It is filled with lots of photos and is a great memory of that year of school. However, the yearbook could be so much more in todays world of online interactivity, dvds, and remix culture. Here’s what I’m thinking.

New sections including Opinion, Year in Entertainment, Special Senior Section
By the numbers (how many test were taking, how much food was served, how many sports games were played)
An art/creative section including paintings, sculptures, drawings, ect.
An interactive dvd with videos, podcasts, photos, and a pdf of the entire yearbook
Some goodies including stickers, fold out posters, buttons/pins
Softcover, Color, Big Photos, Simple Design, 200 pages, Jewelboxs or flat cardboard case at the back of the book and Lulu, 30 dollars
Fold out poster through iPhoto feature. Get a grant. Use fundable for parents to fund.
Upload to Dreamhost server. Burn CD. Facebook photos and group.
Online Flash edition of the yearbook with bonus features
Contribute photos and videos, take surveys, and submit other information online.
Each cover is a picture chosen by the person through a website
Let the students remix and customize their own yearbook.

Perhaps someday soon we will see some of this ideas implemented in a yearbook.