Final project for iPads for Middle School Libraries

This is an outline of the final project for the iPads in the Classroom training.  We worked as a middle school group on this project.  I have to say we are a great PLC group and work well together. All of us have strengths that benefit the group as a whole.

Creating Variable Media Book Reviews Accessible by QR Codes

1.     We set up Google Docs to be able to share QR codes created between the middle school libraries.  Each building would create a minimum of 10 QR codes to begin with.

2.     We located a QR code app on the iPads.  With this step we learned that even though a QR code creator app was labelled “free” only the reader portion of the app was free; the user would have to pay for the creator side of the app. Creating QR codes on a desktop is only free for a trial period.

3.    Link the YouTube, TeacherTube, Nancy Keane’s audiobook podcast for book reviews and student written reviews to QR codes.

4.    Print the QR code and attach it to the book cover in the library collection (or create a bulletin board.)

 

Different libraries will experiment with placing the code on the spine, on the cover, or inside the cover of the book.

 

We hope to inspire our students to make their own trailers and reviews. This will move the educational depth of the project from simply using technology to inform the students’ reading choices to having the students create new content including the consideration of voice, perspective, choice of format, the use of comparison and contrast, and persuasive writing. These last issues bring the considerations of civil discourse into the project.

Our goal is to create QR code book trailer links for 20 titles over the summer, and have our students begin creating book trailers during the next school year.