Videos & QR Codes in the Library

Videos & QR Codes in the Library

Promoting our libraries is a crucial part of information literacy. Videos are a great way to capture student attention and spread information literacy in one click. These innovative libraries have been creating videos to reach students, showcase their work and promote literacy.

Here are some of their best:

NHS Library:

Best Liked by Students:  In this video, their mascot takes us to the process of checking out books and shows us what is available at the library along with behavior expectations.

Most Helpful to Students:  This screencast created by the librarian helps students navigate the library’s website and shows students what they can access through it.

The Unquiet Library:

Most Helpful to Students: This Screencast helps students obtain creative commons images and downloading them for their presentations.

Best Liked by Students:  This video allows students to see themselves throughout the year as they enjoyed using the library.

Pikesville HS Library:

Most Helpful to Students:

This is a detailed video created by staff that helps students understand the registration process. Teachers from each department give suggestions on which classes to take.

Best Liked by Students:  

Students will enjoy this video because it is student created and targets organizational skills for students.

BBMS Media:

Most Helpful to Students:

This video clearly defines and explains the use of annotated works cited.

Best Liked by Students:  

Students will enjoy this parody featuring Frozen’s “Let it Go” reminding them to return their books to the library.

I can’t wait to use videos that will allow students to access instructional screencasts as well as information about library procedures that will ease the use of library materials. I would also love to get students involved in making their own videos that showcase their creativity and simultaneously embed curriculum standards.

Students can create their own book trailers like the one below based on the amazing novel written by Jason Reynolds. 

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner

An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller Jason Reynolds’s fiercely stunning novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. (Simon & Schuster) 

Use the following QR Code to access a book trailer for this amazing book. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEvxXgZVuA4

QR Codes are a great way for students to access webpages quickly and easily. Long gone are the days of creating shortcuts on different devices or typing in the address bar only to access the wrong information. 

Teachers are using these codes to create classroom scavenger hunts, gallery walks, assign work to early finishers and even remediation and tutorials. 

QR codes can link to Google Suite Sheets, Presentations, Surveys, Quizzes and Docs. Can't wait to use these in our library. Librarians can also use QR Codes to access book trailers that showcase newly added titles to the collection and promote literacy with read alouds from YouTube. All students need is a device that has a QR Code reader and the sky is the limit!