YouTube
YouTube is
a free video sharing website that
makes it easy to watch online videos. You can even create and upload your own
videos to share with others. Originally created in 2005, YouTube is now one of
the most popular sites on the Web, with visitors watching around 6 billion hours of video every
month. When using videos in the classroom students retain more information,
understand concepts more rapidly and are more enthusiastic about what they are
learning. Connections across content areas are made more quickly. When students create videos the content is
rapidly understood and students take ownership of their learning.
Here are videos from school libraries:
Norman
High School
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The
Unquiet Library
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Pikesville
High School Library
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BB
Middle School Library
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Here are some ways that videos can be used in the
library:
- Instructional Videos
- Book Promotion
- School or Library Event Promotion
- Show how to Research Databases
- Showcase student created and led projects
Animoto
Animoto is a cloud-based system video maker that allows
the user to make videos with using text, pictures, and videos. Because it is cloud-based it is easily
accessible anywhere. The videos are
customizable with a wide variety of video style options. Best of all it is super simple to use. Another great thing is that it has an
educator option which allows the educator access to 50 free student accounts as
long as they sign up using their email address from school. I created a book trailer using Animoto for
the book Armadillo Rodeo by Jan Brett.
Publisher Synopsis:
When Bo spots what he thinks is a "rip-roarin',
rootin'-tootin', shiny red armadillo," he knows what he has to do. Follow
that armadillo! Bo leaves his mother and three brothers behind and takes off
for a two-stepping, bronco-bucking adventure. Jan Brett turns her considerable
talents toward the Texas countryside in this amusing story of an armadillo on
his own.
You can watch the book trailer here or scan the
code below:
A QR Code (it stands for "Quick Response") is a
mobile phone readable bar code that can store website URL's, plain text, phone
numbers, email addresses and pretty much any other alphanumeric data.
QR codes
can be used in the library for:
- Scavenger Hunts
- Book Trailers
- Promotional materials
- Tour of Library
- Presentation of material
- Book information
- Video Presentations
- Author Information
- Contests
- Online reading
- Maps
Sources
(n.d.). Retrieved March 23, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/
Resources. (n.d.). Retrieved March 23, 2017, from http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/ntti/resources/video1.html
Brett, J. (n.d.). Armadillo Rodeo. Retrieved March 23,
2017, from http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196957.Armadillo_Rodeo
QR Codes. (n.d.). Retrieved March 23, 2017, from http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=QR_Codes
Scan Me! QR Codes in the School
Library. (n.d.). Retrieved March 23, 2017, from http://eduscapes.com/sessions/qrcodes/
Great job on your booktrailer. I also really liked your ideas for using QR codes in the library!
ReplyDeleteDenisse Ochoa
The Armadillo Rodeo book trailer is adorable. I can see kids really enjoying it! I also really like your idea to use QR codes for contests. I am going to research more into that idea. Great blog!
ReplyDeleteI love your book trailer on The Armadillo Rodeo! I have shown several book trailers to the kids and they enjoy wathing them, and they always want to read the book after the book trailer.
ReplyDeleteDamiana Guerrero