The CD version of this year’s yearbook will cost the same as an Extra Value meal at McDonald’s.
The yearbook, organized around “The Survivor” theme will be produced in three formats: a CD version, an online version and a hard-bound book.
The cd version includes several pictures, articles spanning the year and a 16-page brochure that will be incorporated into the printed book.
Every senior can have his or her picture in the yearbook. A photographer will be on Driscoll Bridge today, Wednesday and Thursday in the afternoon. Seniors are urged to stop, have an informal photo taken and answer the question, “How did you survive four years at DU?” The photo will appear in the printed version that can be bought pre-paid. It will be mailed to the student’s home during the summer.
Alberto Mares, former editor in chief of the Clarion and editor in chief of the cd yearbook, said the CD version will include animation and sound. Mares and a staff consisting of Muy Le, Ana Nedergaard, Glenn Carlson, Kim Kirven, Megan Feller and Advisor Ania Savage are producing the yearbook in the three formats. The yearbook’s format will consist of a more modern style. Mares and Le are using the yearbook as internships for credit.
“Try to imagine the yearbook as a cross between a newspaper Web site, the Fossil and Gap Clothing Web sites,” Mares said. “As students load the CD on their computers, they’ll seen animation sequences, links to news stories, and contact information organizations.”
There are only a handful of digital yearbooks known to exist nationwide. The online edition of the yearbook will contain fewer pictures and perhaps a chat room and bulletin board that the class of 2003 can use to keep in touch.
A link to the online version of the yearbook may be offered under the Alumni heading at the University of Denver homepage. The print edition will consist of 64 page book that will include the 16 page brochure from the CD yearbook as the center spread.
It is planned that this version will be produced during the summer break by several students for internship credit.
It is not known if any other university has published a yearbook versions in three different versions.
The yearbook staff plans to submit the different versions of the yearbook to a contest seeking innovative student publication.
The CD version will be available at graduation, the last weeks of this year and the beginning weeks of next year.
Next year, the yearbook will revert back to the traditional hard-bound book.
Feller is currently building a staff, and plans to work through the summer on the design of the book. The book will be marketed throughout the fall next year, including at such events as SOAR. Feller said the cost of the yearbook has not been determined.
“Our main goal in bringing back the Kynewisbok is to instill and record the pride of our campus as it grows and changes,” Feller said. “Much is happening in the world and in our community and these changes need to be preserved. Where better than the book of knowledge (translation of Kynewisbok)?” Those interested in joining the staff for the 2003-2004 yearbook can contact Feller at mfeller@du.edu.
