Videos and QR Codes In the Library
The library is quickly extending it's mighty reach through doorways, windows, breaking through walls, and transcending all material things with technology. Two things that have equipped librarians and teachers are QR codes and videos. I've used videos as synthesizing assignments through projects in the English classroom. I have also seen how teachers use QR codes to update and facilitate information for students. After observing a few YouTube channels and viewing videos from several libraries, I have chosen to highlight eight.
This collection of videos is small, but very useful. The video I think would be most useful to high school students is the “How To Use EBSCO host.” As a teacher, I can see students visiting this video multiple times and at least once every year. The video I think students would like the most is titled, “Tiger Visits The Norman High Library”. The video is entertaining and shows everything the library has to offer. It also promotes school pride.
This is the healthiest collection of videos in the group. It was difficult to choose amongst them. I thought the most useful video for students is titled, “Finding and Using Wikimedia Commons Images.” More and more projects are demanding the integration of outside sources, and it is beneficial for students to know how to properly cite these. The video I think students will like the most is, “Why I Love Evernote: A Student Perspective.” There’s something about students teaching students. Students are more receptive when they hear criticisms of technology, skills, movie, or anything really… when it comes from other students.
The video I
think would help students most is “Noodle Tools: How To Create An Account”.
Since a lot of the school’s resources are available through this portal, it
would be beneficial for students to refer to this video to start. There are also other videos on Noodle
Tools to view. The amount of
talent on this video collection is truly amazing. How do these students do it? The
video students will like the best is the song fixed to Frozen’s “Let It Go.”
That video is amazing! The video is called “Bring Them Back Overdue Library
Book Parody.” It’s catchy and well done.
YouTube
This collection of videos is small, but very useful. The video I think would be most useful to high school students is the “How To Use EBSCO host.” As a teacher, I can see students visiting this video multiple times and at least once every year. The video I think students would like the most is titled, “Tiger Visits The Norman High Library”. The video is entertaining and shows everything the library has to offer. It also promotes school pride.
This is the healthiest collection of videos in the group. It was difficult to choose amongst them. I thought the most useful video for students is titled, “Finding and Using Wikimedia Commons Images.” More and more projects are demanding the integration of outside sources, and it is beneficial for students to know how to properly cite these. The video I think students will like the most is, “Why I Love Evernote: A Student Perspective.” There’s something about students teaching students. Students are more receptive when they hear criticisms of technology, skills, movie, or anything really… when it comes from other students.
Pikesville High
School is an AVID campus, so I know that having a functional AVID binder is
incredibly important to the campus.
The binder is an instrumental piece of education that solidifies the
program’s effectiveness. The video
that is the most useful to students is the AVID “Pimp My Folder 2012”
video. I know it’s four years old,
but the AVID program is structured and I can see every student new to the
campus watching this video in class or at home. The video I think students would like best is “Senior Party at the Library”. I think the students would like to see how the library could
be a place to have fun as well.
(On a side note, I also think students would like to see all the AP
course videos to be in the know about what to expect.)
Animoto
I recently read the Pura Belpré winner, Yaqui Delgado Wants To Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina. I read it with reluctant readers in a high school classroom, and it made a monumental impact. This novel was one that awakened students to reading. Most confessed that this was the only novel they had read from cover to cover. It made me proud to know that such a riveting story, in a place thousands of miles away from South Texas, would enthrall my recent immigrant students. It was definitely successful. I can see Animoto playing a vital part in student engagement. Students can be engaged at the beginning of a lesson. It is easy for teachers to create a presentation and satisfy their technology component in their evaluations as well. It provides step-by-step instructions to creating a presentation with text and photographs. Flickr has creative commons images that can be used for academic purposes. Furthermore, students can also create an Animoto presentation for a project or to incorporate rigor and relevance projects in cross curricular activities.
The book cover and publisher synopsis follows:
In Meg Medina’s compelling new novel, a Latina teen is targeted by a bully at her new school — and must discover resources she never knew she had.
One morning before school, some girl tells Piddy Sanchez that Yaqui Delgado hates her and wants to kick her ass. Piddy doesn’t even know who Yaqui is, never mind what she’s done to piss her off. Word is that Yaqui thinks Piddy is stuck-up, shakes her stuff when she walks, and isn’t Latin enough with her white skin, good grades, and no accent. And Yaqui isn’t kidding around, so Piddy better watch her back. At first Piddy is more concerned with trying to find out more about the father she’s never met and how to balance honors courses with her weekend job at the neighborhood hair salon. But as the harassment escalates, avoiding Yaqui and her gang starts to take over Piddy’s life. Is there any way for Piddy to survive without closing herself off or running away? In an all-too-realistic novel, Meg Medina portrays a sympathetic heroine who is forced to decide who she really is.
The book cover and publisher synopsis follows:
Winner of the 2014 Pura Belpré Author Award
In Meg Medina’s compelling new novel, a Latina teen is targeted by a bully at her new school — and must discover resources she never knew she had.
One morning before school, some girl tells Piddy Sanchez that Yaqui Delgado hates her and wants to kick her ass. Piddy doesn’t even know who Yaqui is, never mind what she’s done to piss her off. Word is that Yaqui thinks Piddy is stuck-up, shakes her stuff when she walks, and isn’t Latin enough with her white skin, good grades, and no accent. And Yaqui isn’t kidding around, so Piddy better watch her back. At first Piddy is more concerned with trying to find out more about the father she’s never met and how to balance honors courses with her weekend job at the neighborhood hair salon. But as the harassment escalates, avoiding Yaqui and her gang starts to take over Piddy’s life. Is there any way for Piddy to survive without closing herself off or running away? In an all-too-realistic novel, Meg Medina portrays a sympathetic heroine who is forced to decide who she really is.
Using QR Codes
QR Codes are a technology that has been in use in the classrooms for quite some time now. And although not all teachers know or utilize the technology, it is incredibly easy to use. I used this QR Stuff website and used their very user-friendly directions to create these. I also experimented using different colors for codes. Teachers and librarians can use the colors to mean something. For example, black can be school news, blue for English classes, red for sports updates, green for testing announcements, and yellow for library news, etc. And there are also different hues in each of these colors so that it doesn't become boring or uneventful. I like the flexibility and the reach of use when incorporating QR codes. Students can use QR codes to catch up on notes they've missed in class, view a teacher's presentation that's been uploaded to YouTube, or download images needed for class. They can also scan and be directed to important sites on the Internet. I particularly like Tony Vincent's post on using QR codes to reflect titled, "Reflection Facilitated by QR Codes."
These are two QR Codes I created to view my Animoto book trailer for Meg Medina's book. Download QR readers or scanners for iPhone or Android and scan it. It will lead you to a website and then to the video on Animoto. This was a very neat experience indeed. I strongly recommend for any and all educators to get involved in promoting the learning experience. John Dewey says, "We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience."
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