Thing #3 Planning for Book Trailer

I tried several of the storyboards offered on the Thing blog. I thought they were all very useful and adaptable for the classroom. However, in using it is the library I found it more difficult to save and print them. My favorite would have been the Digitales one. I like the way it offers students an opportunity to look at setting, characters, lighting, camera shots, etc. I used this for my book trailer. However, when I went to save it, all of the slides were not on the saved document. So I decided to just use Keynote for my storyboard. I could make a template for a storyboard to keep and use in the library offering more direction for specifics on the slides. Planning is so important and using the storyboard helps me focus on the elements I want to put in my scenes for the movie. Sometimes, I just want to create something and get it out. But planning makes me focus on details and adds more creativity to my thinking when producing a product. My storyboard

Thing #2: Evaluation

Website Evaluation: I love these resources for evaluating websites. I especially like the ones with examples for students to try. Some were more complicated than others, but they can be adapted for elementary. I plan on utilizing these on my library website for students to access from home also. I used the University of Maryland's checklist for website evaluation. My website passed for authority, content, currency, and design. I used UNC's website checklist to evaluate credibility, bias, audience, accuracy, currency and relevance. This last evaluation adds more critical thinking for the evaluator. My website passed all of the criteria from this form but made me look for more criteria in backing up the information on the website.
I like what MHC's library blog said about the need to make this process intrinsic for students. I loved her idea for having it looping in the library. I also would like to make it a natural part of our vocabulary and verbage when perusing websites and doing research in the library. I would like to adapt one of these forms and have it on the computers in the library and send to teachers to have access, perhaps on a library wiki.

Thing #1: Access Information

Before starting I read some of the more expert orthinologist post out there. Being such a novice at this bird watching, I wanted to see the process that the experts are going through. I noticed not only do the experts use the search engines, but they follow links that lead to more expert advice. So I used my trusty dogpile search engine that I have used every time for perusing the internet. I tried "book trailers" and got multiple hits from instructional sites on how to create book trailers to tons of actual book trailer sites from publishers and individuals. I tried "book trailers for elementary students" using yahoo and dogpile. I was surprised to find some cool sites with using yahoo. I found a site that seems most interesting where the librarian used prezi presentation tool to give instruction on how to create a book trailer. I am interested in using prezi (www.prezi.com) now for some of my beginning of the year presentations. I wanted to try Lycos because of the feature of showing the site visually before going to it. I found Naomi Bates, Book Trailers for All, which is very popular with many librarians. I found her instructional page where she uses gives instruction with Photostory and Moviemaker. I put in "create a book trailer with IMovie" and found some instruction through blogs. I noticed people were helping each other out with links to creating them. (http://ofkells.blogspot.com/2010/03/book-trailer-how-to-make-book-trailer.html)I love collaboration!
The databases mentioned were of no help with finding anything about book trailers. However, using Wikipedia led to digitalbooktalk.com, University of Florida's "Digital Booktalk." This is a storehouse of instruction and videos. I loved their explanation for using the videos not just as a commercial per se, but as a tool to draw in reluctant readers, those who have trouble visualizing in the first place.
Other sources found were schooltube and youtube where lots of book trailers are there for our use as examples when creating. I could use all of the copyright free images sites that you mentioned in the 5.75 blog book trailer.

Bringing It All Together

1. My topic is going to be a book trailer.
2. One of my duties as a librarian is to instill an interest for reading. This video will be an enticement to my students to want to try out this particular new book.
3. TEKS(4.8) Reading/variety of texts. The student reads widely
for different purposes in varied sources. The student
is expected to:

(A) read classic and contemporary works (2-8);

(B) select varied sources such as nonfiction, novels,
textbooks, newspapers, and magazines when reading
for information or pleasure (4-5); and

4. Students are very visual in this generation. Presenting a book with visual appeal through technology will ramp up the interest level for their reading choices. I hope to instill an eagerness to try a novel by using visual edginess in presenting the content.