A PUBLICATION OF THE FLORIDA READING ASSOCIATION

Book Talk Tech (links from the article)  by Terence W. Cavanaugh  
in FRQ Volume 42, No. 2, Winter 2005-2006

A few excellent online book talk resources:

Nancy Keane’s Book Talks – Quick and Simple: http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/

Nancy Keane’s Book Talks – Quick and Simple Blog: http://booktalker.blogspot.com/

Joni Richards Bodart’s The BookTalker: http://www.thebooktalker.com/

Booktalking Basics: http://www.albany.edu/%7edj2930/aboutbt.html

Promoting Reading with Book Talks: http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/cip/learntech/eng/pr/

Yahoo Discussion Group: Booktalkers: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/booktalkers

A few video book talk sites

Book Talk using iMovie: http://www.users.ties.k12.mn.us/~wbierden/booktalk.htm

Digital Booktalks: http://digitalbooktalk.ucf.edu/

Apple Education Language Arts (look at Short Story Commercials and Book Ads): http://education.apple.com/education/ilife/subject_template.php?subject_id=2

HarperCollins’s Author’s Notes: http://www.harpercollins.com/authornotes.asp?page=notes

Teachers@Random: http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/librarians/booktalks.html l

Prairie Middle Students Video Book Talks: http://www.prairiepride.org/teachertools/ViewAssignment.php?AssignID=19589&SylID=327

Kenton County Public Library Staff Book Talks: http://www.kenton.lib.ky.us/videos/booktalks/

Video Booktalk Resources and Tutorials

Photo Story Booktalking: http://www.drscavanaugh.org/ebooks/booktalk.htm

Microsoft Photo Story download – http://www.microsoft.com/photostory

Photo Story program tutorials: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/tips/firststory.mspx

Microsoft Movie Maker download – http://www.microsoft.com/moviemaker 

Movie Maker program tutorials: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/videos/create.mspx

Book Talk using iMovie: http://www.users.ties.k12.mn.us/~wbierden/booktalk.htm

Apple iMovie download - http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/

iMovie program tutorials: http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/