Library Ideas
Audioboo link for our 3-5 booktalks
Shared ideas from PA librarians & teachers:
Audioboo link for our 3-5 booktalks
- Create codes to podcasts, YouTube videos (ViewPure- takes away all of the clutter/comments around a YouTube video), webpage links, contests, blogs, email correspondence, and text. Attach to flyers, bulletin boards, books, parent newsletters, and homework. Are You My Mother? Bear Wants More!
- Create a library scavenger hunt, with each code giving the clue to the next book (or area to search). (Dewey, author studies, non-fiction, history links). Use other teachers in the building to be a part of your search.
- Feature new additions to the library: Hang flyers in the bathrooms that have a catchy hook & a code. (Gotta get them reading!) :o)
- Create student or teacher book reviews- audio or video (digital voice recorders plug right into the computer, Flip videos or iPods w/ iMovie are also easy). Attach the codes directly on the books or make a "poster" of the codes."
- Host a book chat & link the code to your blog.
- Link to current issues
Shared ideas from PA librarians & teachers:
- baconbytes.wordpress.com is a blog by Chris Hyde where he shares his collaborative project with a librarian & gifted ed teacher. ~ Susan Kell
- "We are doing a "State High Reads" along with Centre County READS. The librarians are encouraging everyone at school to read The Book Thief. They are promoting the program with a 'question of the week' and link it to a QR tag on posters around the school." ~Jane Sutterlin
- "I have:made a QR enhanced online resource page for our databases & ebooks, made a QR treasure hunt using our iPads, mark books with QR codes for which we have ebook titles, created a QR business card for our catalog. I want to start a code of the week to highlight resources, and add links around the library that explain what are in particular stack ranges, link to videos and new resource reviews." ~ Doug Uhlmann
- "I helped our librarian use QR codes during her 9th grade library orientation. We made a scavenger hunt where they read text given from the code, answer a question on a worksheet, and find the next area outlined." Dianne notes: they had to group students because not everyone had a smartphone and they had to make sure everyone had the qr reader app downloaded ahead of time. They are also going to make QR codes during their district art show for the seniors that have large portfolio displays (link to student info/artwork/reflection). ~ Dianne Krause
- "When we have an open house, I use a QR code on the handout so they can see our databases. We are creating a self-guided audio of the school using QR codes and audacity." ~ Charmaine Gates
- "I use QR codes for book trailers. As part of their History & English classes they read novels & then create a one minute book trailer using web 2.0 tools. I attach the code to the spine of the book. Students can quickly scan the code to watch the book trailer and help them in the book selection process. I also use QR codes in library promotion to direct students to library resources." ~ Amanda Templeton
- Esther worked with her enrichment facilitator, Gwen, and 7th grade reading teacher, Janeen, on a O. Henry scavenger hunt. Students worked in groups with iPads & a link to Google Docs questions. Example clues: "Tom Brady will throw it your way"- code inside biography of Tom Brady, "Look under the first president"- code underneath picture of George Washington. Results: answers ready for teacher to grade & "not only did the students learn about O.Henry, but they also reinforced library search skills, learned to work cooperatively in groups and were exposed to the new technology of QE codes while getting use to the iPads...it was a successful lesson all around." ~ Esther Andrle
- Vocational students at the Center for Arts & Technology were featured in the November 2011 issue of techdirections.com (pages 14-16). ~Cathy Cuerden
- Cross curricular connections between art, journalism & special locations in the local York community created the Synergy Project. Students "made a connection with locations that highlighted our community, pitched ideas for a theme and sculpture, created the sculptures, and labeled them each with a permanent QR code on the sculpture for community members to learn about the whole process." The predecessor for this project was The George Segal Project, which was a collaboration between English and art classes. The students created one-act plays & accompanying sculptures that were labeled with QR codes to teach others about the process. The sculptures were displayed around the school. ~ Carol Roth