Wondla...thanks to Lou Alice Rogers of St. Paul Christian Academy for this idea!
Consider buying the book, The Search For Wondla by Tony Di'Terlizzi then go to the web site, wondla.com.
What you will need: computer webcam download D’fusion Plug-in (see instructions on website) YOUR STUDENTS WILL LOVE THIS!!! Check it out! There is a code within the book that, once scanned, takes the reader inside the story. So cool. Augmented Reality and Books
It's official: we have entered the realm of the Jetsons. Watch this video to see AR explained. Another great Lou Alice idea that we picked up at the excellent TAIS Librarian Roundtable at St. Paul Christian Academy is here, explaining how we can promote books and reading through augmented reality.
Animoto: making you look better than you really are.
Don't you love programs like this?! Educators can apply for a free account, though we purchased an annual "pro" account so we had more options in the design/music department. This is my first effort at it and below my video you will see my supervisor's first utilization when promoting award winning books for an 8th grade English class lesson.
Other sites of interest:
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Get creative with book talks!
Some librarians like to create Power Points or Prezis to illustrate their book talks. Others are opting to create free web sites that do the same. Check out this really cool Weebly site that Naomi Bates created recently for her Spring 2012 book talk.
Add a flat screen to your library's wall
Use the television to show book trailers, run slide shows of new books (or a theme, like banned books). Use it to show pictures from a colleague's trip to Japan and create a display of Japanese fiction below it. Play a school dance performance and mix fiction and non-fiction books about dance below it. Walk around campus with a camera and catch shots of students and faculty "caught reading" to show on this screen. Use ALA's READ software to create your own community Read posters, which you can show on this television. Let your imagination run wild. It's so easy to do and the possibilities are endless.
Reading 2.0 Wiki
Just skim down the left hand menu of this great wiki for many more ideas! Some of them are really simple and will leave you asking "Why didn't I think of that?!"
E-Books & Audiobooks for Reluctant Readers
Have you spent much time investigating the pros and cons of this timely conversation? Here's a great voicethread that explains how one school utilized Overdrive to reach more of their student body.
Read Kiddo Read!
If you haven't checked out James Patterson's excellent site, http://www.readkiddoread.com, please, stop what you're doing and check it out. Not only are there parent and educator book reviews, there are also "if you liked this, check out ___" lists. Maybe you could incorporate this into your library web page or recommend the site to your students in some way?
Podcasts
Naomi Bates really does do an exceptionally good job integrating technology into her reading promotion. She writes, "When one begins to use technology to try different forms of something tried and true, a new creative product is born...one more suffused into teen culture." To that I say "Bingo!". Take a look/list
en at her book talk podcasts here. We are doing the same exercise with our middle school book club here at GPS. What to read next??
Here are some good sites you can refer students to:
http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/search http://bookseer.com/ Novelist (subscription database) http://www.librarything.com http://nancykeane.com/rl/ |
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Do you have ideas or tried and true practices we can add to this list?
If so, please email them to cooltools4librarians at gmail dot com and I will gladly add them
and attribute them accordingly. :)
If so, please email them to cooltools4librarians at gmail dot com and I will gladly add them
and attribute them accordingly. :)