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We have thousands of books in our Library at Paintsville Elementary and that can be overwhelming to an elementary student when it’s time to choose a book. I would like to provide them with an easy and efficient way of judging whether or not a book may be right for them.
Hollywood does a great job of peaking our interest about upcoming movies by making previews and showing them on tv, the web and before other movies. I would like to borrow from them and have my older students make “Book Previews” for my younger students.
I would like to purchase iPads for the students to use for making the previews. iMovie is a free app that makes filming and editing video easy. I would also like to purchase iPods for viewing the “Book Previews”.
I would link the previews to a QR code that I would then place on our books in the library, and students could scan and watch the preview. I feel this would make them more likely to find books to their liking.
I can monitor the success by comparing the number of books with previews checked out with books that don’t have previews. I expect that the previews will increase a book’s check out rates.