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Books
Come to
Life
: creating trailers, QR Codes, and changing the way
students see books
by Barbara De Santis & Katie Llera
Sayreville School District

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About us..
Katie Llera Barbara De Santis
 Media Specialist at Sayreville  In-class Suppport Technology
Middle School Specialist
 Admin for the “Great Graphic  STAR Discovery Educator
Novels for Teens” committee
 Award winning blog
 Reviewer for School Library
Journal  Editor and President-Elect of
the New Jersey Science
 Reader for “Garden State Teen Teachers Association
Book Awards”

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What is a book trailer?
Book trailers are
just like movie
trailers, brief
summaries of
books.

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Why create a book trailer?
Visual
Learners
Ready to go
Child or Teen
Approved
Easily
Adjustable

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My school
 1300 students
 Not a one-to-one school
 20 iPads
 Filtered internet
 Not a BYOD

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What do I need?
 Computer/iPad
 QR scanner app or
software (all free)
 iPad,tablet,webcam,
smart phone, iPod touch
 Internet access
 Imagination

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How do I make a trailer?
Create your own Borrow from others
 iMovie  Scholastic Book Trailers
 Animoto  Youtube
 Little Bird Tales  Schooltube
 Webcam
 Video Camera
 Glogster

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QR….. what?
 QR codes or quick
response codes
 Fast readability
 Can be scanned by a
 Smartphone
 Webcam
 iPad

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Link QR codes to anything!
 Your website
 Back to School night/conferences
 Videos/trailers
 Pathfinders
 Guides for projects
 Read-a-likes
 Updated information for non-fiction

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War of the Worlds

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Night of the Living Dummy
http://vimeo.com/54373209

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Wonderful Winter Haiku Poems
tp://www.littlebirdtales.com/tales/view/story_id/4652

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Mother’s Day video
 http://animoto.com/play/BctF9tyZN3lYJpaT1Sou4g?
utm_source=discoveryeducation.com&utm_medium=player&
utm_campaign=player

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Ruined Trailer
 http://vimeo.com/54369644

15. Book Trailers are
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not just for fiction.

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The other fiction, non-fiction
 Link trailers to subjects on History, both non-fiction and
historical fiction titles.
 Link a Community Service Club activity such as a Breast
Cancer Walk to books about Breast Cancer.
 Link a trailer of a math project your students worked on to a
math book, or display in the classroom
 Link to a digital collage that students have made from their art
work work to take home.

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Thinking outside the box.
 Extra-curricular clubs
 Advertisements for school events (play)
 School video for incoming students
 Summer Reading Program
 Spelling Bee, Geography bee or more
 Great for parents/guardians show casing student work
 Board meetings

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Summer Reading

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Oregon
Trail
Can we
make it?
Our journey west.

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Making a Trailer

21. +  8 Special Education students
with various behavioral
issues and learning
disabilities.
 The class room teacher
reviewed the subject matter
they had learned through
their textbook and a DVD
Testing the waters documentary.
Our first trailer using iMovie  First created a trailer
together as a group.
 Then in partners.

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Finding content for trailers
 student created content
 images
 editable video through
Discovery Education
 Reminding students that they
are creating their own, unique
version.

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What did we learn?
 Students loved making
trailers!
 It helped them check their
grammar, vocabulary, and use
of images.
 Partners are great for editing
each other's work and
grammar.
 Picked up how to use the
technology instantly

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Oregon Trail

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I have a trailer..now what?
 Find a website that creates QR
Codes.
 Delivr
 Kaywa
 QRstuff

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Delivr

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Creating a QR Code

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Creating a QR Code

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More on QR codes..
 Statistics
on how many people scan your
QR Code.
 Youcan edit the URL of the QR Code
without altering the QR Code.
 You can search devilvr
 Group codes together for a project

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Creating a scanning station.
 Webcam
 Computer
 QRprogram (Quick
Mark)

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Can my students do this from
home?
 Smartphone statistics
 31% of those ages 14-17
 8% of youth ages 12-13
 Webcams are built into most
laptops
Horrigan, John. A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users. Pew Internet & American Life
Project, May 6, 2007, http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/213/report_display.asp, accessed on May 10, 2007.

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Training your students
 Educating students on what a QR code is and how it is going to
be used in school
 How you can scan it.
 What will happen.
 Connecting our physical world to the digital for a global
impact

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Thanks!

34. +  Katie Llera
 Katie.Llera@Sayrevillek12.net
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Contact Information
@SMSBOELIBRARY
 Barbara De Santis
Connect to share or ask questions!
 Barbara.desantis@Sayrevillek12.net