Description: This workshop will expose you to some great online resources to introduce students to popular young adult literature using book trailers, teen blogs, author talks, podcasts and readers’ theater. It will also give you some different online resources you can use as alternatives to the classic book report in class.
* This session meets the "technology integration" licensure renewal requirement.
Workshop links and resources:
Websites for introducing popular books to students
Young Adult Author - Patrick Carman
www.patrickcarman.com
Videos to accompany his book series, movie trailers, podcasts and radio interviews, book readings and studyguides to go with his books.
Skeleton Creek Series by Patrick Carman
www.sarahfincher.com
The Tracker Series by Patrick Carman
www.trackersbook.com
What do teens want in a book or author website?
The information between these two lines was taken directly from the Rading 2.0 website. I cannot take credit for it, but there are some great things listed here, so I wanted to make it easily accessible to you. There is a link to the full website below.
Great websites for young adult books expand the reading experience. They offer readers new ways to connect with books through games, music, graphics, videos and, in the ultimate example, by contributing to the story.
Ultimate Example: Read The Amanda Project. Then continue the story on the website. Create a character and join the story.
Barnes and Noble Resources
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/bn-studio-author-interviews-book-videos/379003633
B&N at School
Author Interviews (video and audio)
Book Trailers
Online Storytime
YACast!
A series of young adult book talks, produced by English Education students at Grand Valley State University
http://secondaryworlds.com/podcast2/ (Associate Professor Robert Rozema's classroom blog)
http://secondaryworlds.com/yacast/ (must have access to iTunes to use this link.)
Scholastic Books Multimedia Resources
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/video.jsp?pID=1640149541&bcpid=1640149541&bclid=1557820328&bctid=22173205001
Other featured videos from scholastic: video book talks, author interviews, book trailers, etc.
Teacher Resources related to getting kids interested in reading
Book Adventure
On this K-8 site, teachers create student accounts where kids can research books based on their reading level, age, and interests. They get a convenient printable list of books that match their level and interests and makes it easy for students to head to the library and hunt down new reading material. After students have read a book, they can log onto their Book Adventure account and take a 10 question multiple choice quiz based on the book they read. Students can take each quiz multiple times and must get 8 or more questions correct to earn points to purchase prizes from the Book Adventure store. Each student's score is automatically sent to the Book Adventure teacher gradebook along with the number of times the quiz was taken. Students earn and save up quiz points to purchase fun goodies from the Book Adventure store. Students can get everything from a 6 month subscription to Highlights magazine to a chocolate bar from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. This is a completely FREE program for students and schools to participate in. Book Adventure has a great teacher area with ideas for encouraging reading as well as certificates to print out to recognize good readers and notes for parents with the students latest reading progress.
Young Adult Love - Teaching, Reading, Sharing and Loving Young Adult books
http://yaloveblog.com/
Teacher blog with book lists and other resources to get kids reading
Reading 2.0 Website
This site was created by two media specialists in Illinois with the purpose of using technology to promote books - not replace them. And they have a bunch of great ideas! Check htem out at the web addres below.
www.readingtech.wikispaces.com
Get Caught Reading
A nationwide campaign to remind people of all ages how much fun it is to read.
www.getcaughtreading.org
Banned Books Week Author video
Get Caught Reading's "What are you reading?"
http://www.youtube.com/user/WhatAreYouReading1/videos?shelf_id=1&view=0&sort=dd
Adlit.org - all about adolescent literacy
http://www.adlit.org/media/
AdLit.org's multimedia resources. Watch exclusive interviews with top young adult authors and prominent researchers or "in the classroom" video clips of good instructional practice.
Teen Reads
http://www.teenreads.com/this-month-on-teenreadscom
Full of book reviews, giveaways, and other information about popular teen books.
Epic Reads
http://www.epicreads.com/
This site is sponsored by Harper Collins and has book reviews, polls for teens, giveaways, etc. A good source if you are looking for new books for your students.
iLearn Technology
This is an Edublog for teachers interested in integrating technology in the classroom. There are some good alternatives for all grades K-12.
http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=935
Websites for Free programs kids can use as an alternative to the old fashioned book report
www.animoto.com
Students can create short, 30 second videos using pictures, text and music to create a book trailer.
Sample - http://animoto.com/play/cu74acy6zqFT4c9yANeRCg
www.prezi.com
Prezi is a presentation tool that allows you to organize and share your ideas. Similar to Powerpoint, this is a more interactive, web-based program.
sample - http://prezi.com/0oydvyappadd/will-grayson-will-grayson-by-david-levithan-and-john-green/
www.edu.glogster.com
Glogster EDU is the leading global education platform for the creative expression of knowledge and skills in the classroom and beyond. We empower educators and students with the technology to create GLOGS - online multimedia posters - with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more.
Sample - http://mrsharmon.edu.glogster.com/leverage
Glogster video tutorial - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80NISdsoouE
Create your own newspaper snippets, clapboards and talking animal animations
http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp
Kids can write book reviews or summaries and put them into a newspaper clipping format. But you can also use this site to create cool advertisements for books - animated animals, flowers, and tomatoes. You can also create movie clappers and many more things.
Notice about this website:
To download your newspaper clipping, use the link at the bottom of the generated image. You can use the images as you wish (ie. put them on your own website or blog.) Please note, that direct linking to the newspaper clippings doesn't work; the images are deleted from the server after a short time span.
Poll Everywhere
This is an online polling option that allows you to pose questions to students that they can immediately respond to via twitter, their cell phones or on the website. Students can use this to predict the outcome of a book, vote for their favorite characters or just share opinions about books in general. Options here are limitless.
http://www.polleverywhere.com/clickable_images/8eCCNKt9pGV9tio/web
Create a timeline of the book or event
www.capzles.com
http://www.capzles.com/#/181cdaed-4764-44ed-9a32-a2f5c1b47ae2/
Have students blog as the character
www.kidblog.com
http://kidblog.org/MrsHarmons9Lit/
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