Last week, I was instructing a class for the book trailer project. Students read a book of their choice and then create a book trailer noting the characters, tone, mood, theme, and other literary elements that would fit the assignment.
For multimedia/digital assignments, we discuss the ethical use of information and how to correctly create [...]
Amanda and I created a short video for the I Heart 21st Century Skills Contest sponsored by AASL. The top three videos are posted on the following site along with a link to vote. If Youtube is blocked at your school (like mine), see our video below. Don’t forget to vote!!
A Library Provides an Opportunity
[...]
1. iGoogle: A great place for all my feeds. For students, they can easily customize the page for their needs AND place our widgets on the page.
2. Twitter: I receive so much information from Twitter. New ways to get information into the hands of students by posting on our website too. twitter/bvwlibrary twitter/beccamunson
3. Google Reader: [...]
I am teaching voicethread class this afternoon to teachers in our district. For the class, I created a resource wiki (http://bvvoicethread.wikispaces.com/), so we can post new ideas and access resources that I found to help beginners.
We recently purchased the education license of Voicethread. It makes it easier to manage for the most part. Recently, they [...]
I am always looking for real world examples when discussing plagiarism with students. Often, it seems that taking something from another site is not a big deal. I found this recent company blog article discussing how another company used their words. Although to me, the offense is very slight, it does a good job of [...]
I saw this on Joyce Valenza’s blog & had to contribute – I love to see what others are passionate about in our profession. I have to say – I couldn’t just use one picture – so I combined a few. AND of course, it took me forever to think of the “one thing” I [...]
In the next couple of days, we will be posting a new library home page. I struggle so much with changing the current one – if something works, don’t fix it – right?
However, we have had the same site for six years.
Of note, the Johnson County Public Library just changed their web site. It looks [...]
Two videos explaining Wiki & RSS. Possible great way to help others begin using these things.
Wiki in Plain English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLYttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY
RSS in Plain English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fbeccablog.edublogs.org%2F2007%2F07%2F19%2Fwiki-rss%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Wiki+%26amp%3B+RSS’;
addthis_pub = ”;
The blog site is going! Students from CA II classes created audio and video (I am going to add to iTunes too) promoting great books.
http://bvwestreads.edublogs.org
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fbeccablog.edublogs.org%2F2007%2F05%2F30%2Fbv-west-reads%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘BV+West+Reads’;
addthis_pub = ”;
Students created audio/video book trailers. I am testing putting it in a blog – so here are a couple of examples… Let’s see if I can get it to work…
Download Schindler’s List
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fbeccablog.edublogs.org%2F2007%2F05%2F19%2Ftesting-testing%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Testing%2C+testing%26%238230%3B’;
addthis_pub = ”;
