Videos and QR Codes in the Library

YouTube is a great teaching tool.  When I taught middle school, I used YouTube for Brain pop and science experiments and history lessons.  The students really like to watch them and they can learn quite a bit from them.  I would love to use YouTube in the library to teach the students how to use the library and the different books that they can check out.  The four different YouTube videos that I watched were very creative and I chose the ones that I thought were what the students would like to see.

Norman High School had a lot of learning videos that can help the students with what is in the library and how to use the resources for projects.   This YouTube video is what I think the students will enjoy.  Teachers involved, good music and Harry Potter.  What more could you ask for?

 

 

The next video from Norman High School shows How to Celebrate your Freedom to read.  They must have had a problem with people questioning the books that teachers and students were reading.  I think the students will like the way this is put together to let them know that it is okay to read what you want to read.

 

 

The Unquiet Library also had quite a few videos to help the students learn about doing projects and how the library can come to you if you do not have time to go to it.  The first video is about teaching seniors to make their projects correctly.

 

 

 

The next one shows the librarian coming to the cafeteria.  I thought that the students might like this one because it shows how you can get books without being quiet.

 

In the Pikesville High school it showed a lot of fun activities that the school put on.  The one that I liked had a snapshot of what is going on in the library.

 

The video that I thought the students would like is the Wii like to party.  Students and teachers can have fun in the library with a party that uses the Wii.

 

 

 

BBMS videos

Now these students are very talented.  I like what they did.  It was very hard to pick just two videos.  I liked the Old Spice Overdue and I really really want you videos.  They both caught my eye.  Old Spice is to teach the students to return their books or they can't go to the talent show.  The Old Spice commercials are very popular on television.

 

The second one that I liked that I think the students will like is the video I really really want you.  Catchy tune that talks about overdue books as well.  They must have had lots of problems with overdue books.

 

 

Animoto:

This was really a lot of fun.  I was able to make a book trailer and now I can help my students make them as well.  I am wanting to start a book club this year with my 4th and 5th graders.  This would be great for them to discuss the books and to give reports in class. 

Here is my book trailer:  Please scan the QR Code.

 

 





 

 Black, H. (2013). The coldest girl in Coldtown. New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

 

Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave.

One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black.

 

QR Codes can be used in the library for quite a few things. 

• Links to social media sites
• Tutorials
• Book trailers
• Library resources

As I said earlier, I would like to start a book club this year with my 4th and 5th graders.  This would be a great way to get them to look up books, resources, and book trailers to help with their ideas.