A Pasco County school is going digital with its yearbook.
J.W. Mitchell High School in Trinity is the first school in the state to have its yearbook accessible on a smart phone or tablet.
“If you want to zoom in on a picture you can zoom in,” said Susan McNulty, the school's advisor, as she showed the yearbook on her iPhone. “You can search for yourself and you can find every page that student is on in the whole yearbook.”
It’s not just digital, now stories are coming to life. The old days were about pictures, now video is everything.
J.W. Mitchell and Pasco High School are using Aurasma, an app that allows pictures to come to life.
“When we did the pages we were happy with them, once we put the videos on them, it made it all real,” said Kaitlyn Lineberry, the yearbook editor at Pasco High School.
Holly DeAugustino covered wrestling.
“People get to understand it more and if they weren’t there,” said Holly DeAugistino, the Pasco High yearbook co-editor.
Yearbooks are typically finished months before the end of the school year, so the digital version provides a way to include information that happened after the deadline - such as the untimely death of a Pasco High student.
“That way, her place stays in the book and she’s always part of the school, as she always has been,” said Pasco High yearbook advisor Rebekah Wallace.
They’re moments that will bring tears and laughs that will last a lifetime.
J.W. Mitchell High School is one of the few schools piloting the digital yearbook in the nation. It says it won’t be a replacement however to the hardback yearbook.