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Booktalks Online

Librarians, teachers, and students are creating and sharing booktalks online. The following are a few locations that you can visit to see a variety of booktalks.  If you know or find some other good sites please send me a note (terry@drscavanaugh.org).

Video Booktalk Locations

The following list contains a number of locations for booktalks online.

bulletApple Education Language Arts: http://education.apple.com/education/ilife/subject_template.php?subject_id=2
Look though the page for Short Story Commercials and Book Ads. Both provide example videos with associated lesson plans.
bulletBook Movie Trailers: http://www.lib.ci.tucson.az.us/trp/trailers.htm 
Five video booktalk videos created by teens at the Tucson Pima Public Library.
bulletBooktalk Slideshows: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/LBSC690-Final-Project-Gallery/200509-booktalks/booktalks.html#
Three video versions of booktalks presented though still images.
bulletBookwink: http://www.bookwink.com/ 
25 video booktalks in sets of two or three divided up by reading topic.
bulletCougar Paw’dCast: http://professor-marvel.com/podcast/labels/booktalk.html
A number of video booktalks presented by Dalton Middle School students.
bulletDigital Booktalks©: http://www.digitalbooktalk.com
Over 40 very high quality production booktalks (QuickTime)
bulletGoogle Video: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=+booktalk&hl=en 
In a general search of the site there were over 200 video booktalks found.
bulletHarperCollinsCanada's Trailers for Books: http://www.harpercollins.ca/trailers/
Site provides over 15 different books including Planet Earth by Tony Juniper, Run by Ann Patchett, The Bad Beginning and The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket.
bulletPicture Book Video Award: http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/events/picture_book_video/index.jsp
This single booktalk on the book Flotsam, won the 2006 picture book video award.
bulletPima County Public Library Teen Zone: http://www.tppl.org/teenzone/trailers/
This site has Teen Trailers (Book Movie Trailers), well created video booktalks including Cut, The Stranger, Stones in Water, The House of the Scorpion, and Hangman's Curse
bulletPrairie Middle Students Video Book Talks: http://www.prairiepride.org/teachertools/ViewAssignment.php?AssignID=19589&SylID=327 
Seventeen booktalks by middle school students about their selected books.
bulletTeacherTube.com: http://www.teachertube.com/search_result.php?search_id=booktalk
A large number of video booktalks can be found by simple searching including Sirena, and The Tail of Emily Windsnap, Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos, The Wright 3, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
bulletTeen BookVideo Awards: http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/events/teen_book_video/index.jsp
Shows the top three book videos for teen books.
bulletVidLit: http://vidlit.com/ 
Provides over sixty booktalk videos
bulletYouTube.com: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=booktalk
A large number of video booktalks can be found by simple searching including Fly on the Wall, Born to Rock, Warriors into the Wild, The King of Attolia, Midnight Bayou, The Giver, The Rules of Survival, Helen Keller, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, and Fanboy and Gothgirl
bulletBook Talk using iMovie: http://www.users.ties.k12.mn.us/~wbierden/booktalk.htm 

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