Videos and QR Codes in the Library

The internet has become a huge part of everyone's life, Americans spend almost ten hours a day engaging in gadgets.  As educators we need to be using technology to get students engaged and involved, most students and teachers today are searching YouTube for videos, music, information, and so much more. When we allow students to use their own technology devices or the school's devices we are meeting the learners' needs and getting them involved and engaged.  I have experienced students' reactions when using technology, they absolutely love it!  I teach first grade students and they make connections to lessons they are learning with videos they have watched on their parent's phones or on their own .  If they create their own videos or if we, as educators, create videos and share them with our students they would definitely be interested and involved in their own education.

Swish Swish by Katy Perry Overdue Library Book Parody

This cute video encourages students to make sure to return their books to the library. Remember once your done with your book return it, this is the message the librarian at this school want all students to remember.

Pikesville High School 

This video was created to encourage students to sign up for FAFSA.  Signing up for FAFSA is an important part of any college students and this video helps students remember that they need to sign up.  Students in this video did a great job creating it!

Tiger Visits The Norman High Library

This was my favorite video, it is an entertaining way to show students everything availiable to them in the library and everything they can do when they are at the library.  This video will definitely grab students' attention and the library from this high school has gotten her point across.

The Panthers Library in Action-Fall 2013

This video gives us a look inside the Panther Library at Pikersville High School.

Ways to use videos to promote the library:
-Introduce the librarian
-Give a tour of the library
-Promote new books in the library
-Return overdue books
-Create book trailers to promote books
-Promote events happening in the library

Book Trailer:

I created a book trailer on the website Animoto.  Animoto was something I had heard about on my campus, but never used it.  I absolutely loved it, it is very easy to use and has many templates to choose from to make our video look great.  It also allows you to add pictures, text and music to the video to make it more engaging.  The book I created the book trailer on was The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly B. Bradley.  Once I completed the video I uploaded it to my YouTube and created a QR code to allow students to watch it on their devices. 

                                                                                                       Synopsis:                                                                                        "Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him.

So begins a new adventure for Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan—and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?"
                                                         

  QR Code to my book trailer:

QR Codes:

I have used QR codes as a teacher, I use them in centers and my students absolutely love them.  I have used them, but never created a QR code, I was pleasantly surprised to know it is very easy to create one.  Knowing how easy it is to create QR codes makes me very excited to begin to create them to use in my class and when I become a librarian.  As a librarian we can use them in many different ways, they allow quick and easy access to links in the library.  Students can access book trailers, YouTube videos, and so much more.  

Source:

Amazon. (2016). The war that saved my life. Retrieved from https://www.amazon.com/War-That-Saved-My-Life/dp/0147510481