Guess what? I made and uploaded a YouTube video for the first time a few weeks ago!
This is a booktalk that I created for a school library media class a few weeks ago. I used PowerPoint to make it and experimented with recording music clips and voice. I will be the first to admit that it is by no means a perfect presentation, but I had a lot of fun with it and hope it might be interesting to watch.
This booktalk is centered focused on books that take old ideas and twist them in new ways, such as Howl's Moving Castle (also see the spontaneous conversational review I posted on this blog a few weeks ago!), Everything I Know About Pirates, William Shakespeare's Star Wars, The False Prince, and The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. I was most interested in combining musical selections with books--you would not believe how long I spent on iTunes choosing just the right song for each book! (I mean, some were obvious--but others were so difficult!).
I honestly think that booktalks are so flexible--we can do so much with them. The original assignment was to just do a booktalk and to have fun with it, but I love PowerPoint (probably too much) and wanted to experiment with matching books and music, as I said. After all, I have been playing the violin for seventeen years now and adore music and books both, so why not match them? And while we're at it, why not add visual imagery to the mix?
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