I want to thank Doctor Stearns for showing us the youtube video of The Book Thief simply because now I realize how powerful the tool of technology can be.
Throughout this semester I have been battling on weather or not I am for or against technology in the classroom. As I've stated before, I understand all of its benefits but I do not want my classroom to go paperless or have students lose face to face communication. Although I still feel this way, watching this youtube video made a very powerful impact on me. I did not read The Book Thief in 374 but after seeing the video, I am extremly eager to read it.
During the semester I have gained a liking to the Warlick text simply because I like the short personal stories of teachers and what they are experiencing in their classroom. I found it interesting that the technology always seemed to work out for them and in their favor. I couldn't help but wonder if using technology in a classroom would be just this easy for me. Somehow, watching this video made an impact on my positive feelings about technology. I wish I could explain it better but I can't!
This would be a great exercise for students to use in the classroom. Students can form book clubs based on the same novel and then make a video clip of a preview of the book and post it on the class blog. This will not only engage students in working and communicating together, but it will spread tons of authors, titles, genres, and give students more exposure to books they may decide to read.
An activity just like this was shown at the session I attended at the conference. The teacher had her students perform a skit of any section of the book they were reading and post it on youtube. She has she received tons of positive feedback about it from her students and she made one just as well.
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First of all, The Book Thief is an awesome book. You have to read it; Markus Zusak is an amazing writer. I loved TBT so much that I read another of his books, I am the Messenger, and loved that as well.
I agree, what an awesome alternative to a book report making a trailer would be? I can see students being much more enthusiastic about making a trailer (perhaps in book club groups?) for a book than doing any writing. And a trailer would show just as much - if not more - understanding of the reading than a book report would.
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