This document discusses how two educators at Sayreville Middle School are using book trailers, QR codes, and technology to engage students with reading. They describe creating brief video trailers to summarize books using free or low-cost tools. QR codes are then linked to the trailers to allow students to scan codes using smartphones or other devices. The educators found that creating book trailers helped students improve grammar and vocabulary skills while also enjoying the process. They encourage other educators to have students make their own trailers to link physical books to online content.

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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