Video Book Talks

Oh the days of 'Reading Rainbow'... I definitely felt reminiscent of those good old days last week when we did our video book talks! All I could think of as we were working is how much I would have loved to do this when I was growing up. I really loved to read and was definitely hooked on reading rainbow. I always wanted to share with others how great I thought a book was and how I thought they should read it (I'm still like that). Having students make their own book talks is so great! First, using the flip cameras is genius. Easy to use, easy to upload! Then they just piece them together using iMovie (I also think this activity might work nicely as a mini intro to iMovie, much like how we used it in class). Add a little music, edit and you're done. I could really see this being used in my future class room if we were going to blog with another country across the country. Maybe each week we choose our favorite read aloud, make a book talk and try to persuade the other class to read it. Or after a student or student group has read a book they create a book talk on it that we watch as a class on Fridays as 'Friday Flix'. I could also see this being a great project for upper elementary, middle and even high school when they're working on persuasion... 'read this book because...'. The possibilities and uses are endless!