Jennifer Shafer
Teacher, Librarian, Tech Trainer, Author
Making and Sharing Book Trailers
Having a difficult time convincing students to read? Promote reading in your classroom or library with book trailers. These commercials sell books to a digital audience like today s student. Learn to create trailers in three different skill levels and find ways to share them with your students, parents, administrators, and teachers. Book also includes ideas for incorporating student-created book trailers into the English Language Arts classroom to fulfill required objectives. Benefits: * Promotes reading * Engage digital learners Topics include: Features: * Steps to making book trailers * Finding images and audio online * Creating citations for fair use * Sharing trailers inside the school environment * Sharing trailers on the web * Flickr * Creative Commons * Jamendo * Animoto * Photo Story 3
Web 2.0 for the Library
Libraries are not just about books anymore. The internet provides huge opportunities to connect your library to 21st-century learning. Use Web 2.0 tools to engage learners, collaborate with teachers, and market your library program to your stakeholders. Make promotional videos, advertise books, and streamline your required management tasks using the web. Learn to incorporate Web 2.0 tools to enhance your library program in your school. Features: Animoto, Blogger, PBWorks, Voki, Wordle, PodBean, Prezi, Voicethread, Glogster, Survey Monkey.
Web 2.0 for the Library, Vol. 2
Libraries are not just about books anymore.
The internet provides huge opportunities to connect your library to 21st-century learning. Use Web 2.0 tools to engage learners, collaborate with teachers, and market your library program to your stakeholders. Make promotional videos, advertise books, and streamline your required management tasks using the web. Learn to incorporate Web 2.0 tools to enhance your library program in your school.
Features included are the following: Delicious, Dropbox, Flickr, Fodey, Google Docs and Forms, LiveBinders, Poll Everywhere, QR Stuff, Quickmark, Screencast-o-matic,Socrative, Tagxedo Tildee,and YouTube.