Bringing Technology to the Library

Part of my job is to help in the Library. I love to find ways to bring technology into the library. Our students were listening to the book Snowflake Bentley and when they were done they created snowflakes online. They had so much fun and we didn't have any paper mess to clean up. They went to Make-A-Flake & Snow Days to create their online snowflakes.

We are currently getting ready to create some things using IPads and Chromebooks with 4th, 5th and 6th graders.

4th grade will be using iPads & the app Toontastic to create their own stories.
5th grade will be using iPads & the app iMovie to create a book trailer of one of their favorite books.
6th grade will be using their Chromebooks & creating a book trailer using the Powtoon website.

Each group will be planning first and then creating.
I found several planning pages to go with each of these.

Toontastic Planning Pages: 

• Planning the Plot
• Toontastic iPad Activities
• Toontastic Resource 
• Toontastic Storyboard

iMovie Planning pages:

• Book Trailer Planning Pages

Powtoon Planning pages:

• Brainstorming
• Powtoon Planning Sheet
• Powtoon Storyboard

Last Year we created Imovie Book Trailers with 5th and 6th graders. You can view them on my youtube channel