For this assignment, I had the opportunity to look at some YouTube channels created by librarians, create a book trailer, and play with QR codes. It was interesting to watch the YouTube videos and think about what was useful, and what would be appealing to students in order to come up with my own ideas of what I might do for my yay own library. Here are a few video highlights:
I think students would like the video “Tiger Visits the Norman High School Library” because it is a fun little video of the school mascot and his experiences in the library meant to encourage students to visit.
2. The Unquiet Library: This librarian clearly works closely with some of the teachers on her campus because many of the videos on this channel address tasks that students are completing in a particular class. There are several videos on how to search for Creative Commons images such as “Video tutorial: Finding CC Images Using Compfight”. I think that these videos would be very helpful to students because so many of them are used to copying and pasting any image that they want, and do not realize the copyright issues that go along with this.
A video that I think students would enjoy would be “Scenes from the Unquiet Library August 2012”. This is a compilation of images of students doing various things in the library set to music. I think students would enjoy looking for themselves and others in this video.
3. Pikesville HS Library: This channel is quite different from the previous two in that it has more fun, student centered videos than instructional videos. One instructional video that would be useful to students is “2013-2014 Registration Process” where the campus counselors go over the forms and requirements for registering for classes.
A video that I think students would enjoy is “Senior Party in the Library”. This is a fun video of seniors having a good time in the library, and I think that students would find it entertaining.
4. BBMS Media: This channel is made up of a combination of student work as well as a variety of instructional videos. One instructional video that I think students would find useful is “NHD Annotation Writing”. The teacher created a detailed video of expectations for an annotated works cited page that students were to complete for an assignment. I really like that the student videos are educational. It looks as though students were instructed to show some sort of science experiment with explanations in a video.
One that I think students would like was “Caroline Director’s Video 10/14/16. The student shows an experiment with dying roses, and the video is well made and interesting.
I would definitely use videos in the library to share book trailers that I find on books that we have in the collection. I would also visit classes when it is okay with teachers to share some of these videos. I know that our librarian does this occasionally, and the books that she features are checked out very quickly. I also like the idea of sharing videos of things that go on in the library to promote it, and to inspire students to create videos that I could share.
My Book Trailer
I created a book trailer using the free program, Animoto. I found it to be a very simple task to work through this free program. My book trailer features JoJo Moyes's, After You.
The program allowed me to choose from a library of themes and music to start. Then, I did a creative commons search for images to include in the trailer. Once the images are loaded, it is simple to drag them into the order that you want them to appear, and add text with the images.
Here is a synopsis of the book taken from amazon.com:
How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living?
Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she started.
Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding—the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will’s past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future. . . .
For Lou Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings. But here Jojo Moyes gives us two families, as real as our own, whose joys and sorrows will touch you deeply, and where both changes and surprises await.
Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she started.
Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding—the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will’s past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future. . . .
For Lou Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings. But here Jojo Moyes gives us two families, as real as our own, whose joys and sorrows will touch you deeply, and where both changes and surprises await.
Scan this QR Code to view my book trailer:
I really love using QR Codes with my students. As an English teacher, I had my student scan a QR Code daily when they entered my classroom to access their bell work. They would be useful in the library in a variety of ways. I would link a Google Form to a QR Code at the entrance of the library and have students sign in and out this way. Google Forms includes a time stamp when someone fills it out, so it would be a nice way to keep good records of who was in the library and what time they arrived and left. Our students participate in a QR Code Scavenger Hunt at their library orientation at the beginning of the year where they scan the codes throughout the library to learn things about the resources available. Eduscapes.com suggested assessing what students need to know when they come into the library and posting QR Codes linking students to instructions for those things like working the copying machine. The Daring Librarian suggests ten ways to incorporate QR Codes into the library on Back to School Night. She posts QR Codes that link parents and students to her YouTube channel, contact information, videos and photos from the library, and useful information on the school website. QR codes are very useful in a library, and it is fun for the students to scan them to discover what they are linked to.
Resources:
https://www.amazon.com/After-You-Novel-Jojo-Moyes/dp/0143108867
http://eduscapes.com/sessions/qrcodes/
http://www.thedaringlibrarian.com/2014/08/10-things-to-do-with-qr-codes-on-backto.html
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