Common Core, Book Trailers, and Three Good Tools for Creating Them

In last month's issue of The Digital Shift I featured the site Book Trailers for Readers . Book Trailers for Readers was developed by t...

Collaborative School Project Idea - Create a Book Review Site

Amazon features book reviews from customers because we tend to look for recommendations from real people who have read the books that we...

5 Tools Students Can Use to Create Alternative Book Reports

This afternoon someone emailed me asking for some suggestions for tools for creating book trailer videos. It has been two years since I last...

Soo Meta - A Nice, New Way to Create Multimedia Presentations

Soo Meta is a new digital presentation tool from the same people that developed the YouTube remixing tool Dragon Tape . Soo Meta allows you...

Shmoop Now Offers History, Math, and Literature Videos

This evening I looked at Shmoop for the first time in quite a while and learned that they now offer videos . The videos are short summaries...

Create Simple Narrated Photostories with Pixntell

Pixntell is an iPad app for quickly creating simple narrated photostories. To create a story using Pixntell all that you need to do is star...

Hemingway Animated - The Old Man and the Sea

A few years ago I posted an animated version of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea . This afternoon through Open Culture I discovered ...

Slime Kids - School Library Media Kids

Slime Kids is a site designed for elementary school students, their teachers, and their parents. Slime Kids offers educational games offers...

5 Free Tools for Creating Book Trailer Videos

The traditional book report that asks students to critique the books that they read is a staple of many classrooms. If you would like to add...

A Great Alternative to Traditional Book Reports

Book Trailers for Readers is a student/ teacher wiki that was recently featured on the Wikispaces blog. Book Trailers for Readers was sta...