High School Yearbooks Become More Personal

High school yearbooks have been designed by a team of students and staff for a long time, but this year some Minnesota schools are allowing all students to design their own sections.

Yearbook giant, Jostens, is allowing students at 40 Minnesota schools the chance to create their own yearbook pages to be bound in their own yearbooks.

For $15 students can upload their own pictures to their own eight pages that will be attached to the back of their yearbooks next to the pages set aside for autographs.

The website, www.yearbookyourself.com, provides layouts, backgrounds, stickers and shapes to be incorporated into their own design.

Schools that are participating are letting students know about it now, but students who want to get more personal pages also can go to the site to see if their school is involved. (Registration is required to access the site.)

Nationally, the program is being rolled out to 1,000 schools. Eventually, more schools will be added.

What do you think of this idea? Would you do it? I think it's pretty cool. I was part of the yearbook staff senior year of high school and we really tried to diversify shots and who was in them, but sometimes students would think they weren't featured enough or wanted to capture something else about their time in high school. This allows those who want to the opportunity to create their own pages to help them keep their happiest high school memories around.