YouTube, Animoto, & QR Codes

Videos & QR Codes in the Library

YouTube

YouTube is a tool to promote the library. You can make a video promoting events in the library, reading a book, and how to use the database. Students, teachers, and parents can sign up to the library YouTube channel and make recommendations or comments on current videos. I have used YouTube in my classroom when teaching new skills or to listen to a fun book. I am subscribed to several channels that have been extremely beneficial when working with technology. Below are four YouTube channels that were created by other librarians.

Channel 1 The NHS Library:

Most Helpful for Students:  

Link:  How to use EBSCO Host

This video would be most helpful to students because it teaches them how to use online databases. It teaches students how to search the database depending on what research they are doing, and it walks them step by step to avoid getting lost or frustrated. It also teaches them how to use MLA citations. These skills are extremely important for students to learn when conducting research. 

Students Would Like: 

Link:  Tiger Visits The Norman High Library

In this video, the school mascot visits the library and shows the different things the library offers from signing in, using the online catalog, searching for a book, and finding a place to read the book. The tiger also uses the online database to conduct research. I honestly love this video. It is a fun way to promote the library. The children would love to interact with the school mascot and learn at the same time. This is a great idea that I would like to do when I start working in the library.

Channel 2 The Unquiet Library

Most Helpful for Students:

Link:   Tillery Tutorial Video: Creative Commons 101 for Senior Project Slides

This video teaches students how to find images with Creative Commons license or are copyright friendly images. The video instructs students on how to use creative works. It allows others to use work under certain conditions. The user gives credit to the work and does not make money by using the images. This is a great video not only for seniors but for students from any grade level. The more they practice these skills, the easier it will be for them as they continue their education.

Students Would Like:  

Link: New Arrivals

Even though the video is short, the music is very entertaining, and it promotes the new books the library has to offer. I think this is a great way to promote new books and the library's monthly book displays.

Channel 3 Pikesville High School Library

Most Helpful for Students:

Link:  PHS Financial Aid Workshop

This is a great video that provides students with information on financial aid, scholarships, grants, and other alternatives like loans and work-study to help students pay for school. It also teaches them the importance of meeting the deadlines for any aid application. I liked how considerate they were by recording the video for parents who could not attend the meeting.

Students Would Like: 

Link: Hip Hop Day @ The Panthers Library

I believed the students would like this video because the video provides memories of what seemed to be a fun day. The video showed pictures of students and staff dressed for Hip Hop Day. Students are showing off their hip hop moves. It just seems like a great way to revisit memories. 

Channel 4 BBMS Media

Most Helpful for Students:  

Link: Access Your Noodle Tools Account

This video teaches students how to access their Noodle Tools account. It informs them of different ways you can access it and lets them know they will have access to this account until they graduate. This is a great way to teach and inform students of different tools they have access to and can use during the school year.

Students Would Like:

Link:  I Really Really Want You - Overdue Books

I really enjoyed this video. It was fun to include kids and teach others about the importance of returning their books on time to the library. Creating videos with students and music is a great way to promote the library.

How to Promote the Library Using YouTube Videos:

* Creating How To tutorials:

• Access to Database
• Access Overdrive
• Citation Rules
• Use the OPAC
• Use Seesaw or which ever platform the campus is using.

* Book Trailers

* Library Events

* School Events

* Promotion of library book displays

Animoto

I had heard about Animoto but had never used it in my classroom. I followed the link, and it was very easy to create an account. I had to view several videos on creating a book trailer since I had never used Animoto before. I made a book trailer on the novel If I Stay by Gayle Forman.

Publishers Weekly:

The last normal moment that Mia, a talented cellist, can remember is being in the car with her family. Then she is standing outside her body beside their mangled Buick and her parents’ corpses, watching herself and her little brother being tended by paramedics. As she ponders her state (“Am I dead? I actually have to ask myself this”), Mia is whisked away to a hospital, where, her body in a coma, she reflects on the past and tries to decide whether to fight to live. Via Mia’s thoughts and flashbacks, Forman (Sisters in Sanity ) expertly explores the teenager’s life, her passion for classical music and her strong relationships with her family, friends and boyfriend, Adam. Mia’s singular perspective (which will recall Alice Sebold’s adult novel, The Lovely Bones ) also allows for powerful portraits of her friends and family as they cope: “Please don’t die. If you die, there’s going to be one of those cheesy Princess Diana memorials at school,” prays Mia’s friend Kim. “I know you’d hate that kind of thing.” Intensely moving, the novel will force readers to take stock of their lives and the people and things that make them worth living. Ages 14–up. (Apr.)

Goodreads:

Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?

Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters.

If I Stay is a heart achingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make.

Scan the QR code to watch the book trailer:

How to use QR Codes in the Library:

I would use QR codes in the library by creating book trailers, directions on how to use the OPAC, databases, overdrive,  displaying the students' projects, and linking them to websites and resources. I would also teach the students how to print a QR code when using Padlet for research projects.