I bet there are lots of libraries doing some fun summer reading video projects this year. Those little Flip video cams seem to be everywhere!
Do you have some video to share with others? We’re just starting to see some video coming in and setting up a page on the summer reading site to spotlight the videos.
All we need is MORE VIDEOS PLEASE!! :-) Photos too. And any other sort of fun digital media that you’ve been creating.
Leave a comment below with a link back to your videos. We’ll add some to the video page and link back to your web site, video or photo account.
The Statewide Summer Reading site now has a page of YA book reviews. The reviews are being pulled in from a variety of sources. As those review sites add new reviews, they’ll show up on the review page.
A shorter list of reviews appears in a Google Reader widget on the Teen Reading & Writing page.
You can also grab the list or the widget for your own web site. Get the code from the Content for Your Web Site page.
Want to show off your great summer reading website and share all the fun you’re having with your colleagues? Leave a comment here so we can highlight your site on the NYS Summer Reading site. And we’ll add a list on the sidebar of the blog too.
The Summer Reading site has a new page of Book Trailers in the Teen section. If your library is running a video project this summer and you have book trailers to add to this page, let us know. We’d love to add your videos. Leave a comment here and we’ll be in touch.
(posted for Karen Balsen) The Statewide Summer Reading Program is all about reading for fun, picking one’s own books, and getting to know your local library and all is has to offer. It is also about reading during the summer as an activity one chooses to do along with friends, family, or on one’s own. This quote seems to sum it up:
“The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don’t, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.” My One Hundred Adventures (p. 7) by Polly Horvath
If you could go on a fantasy road trip with a character (or characters!) from your favorite series, where would you go? What would you do along the way? How would you travel? Create a video and show us!
These are the 30 minute cameras. A great price if you want to try video recording with your kids and teens this summer. Or as an extra if you already have one of the fancier cameras. Or maybe just a treat for yourself?
The customized video public service announcements are now available. Visit the New York Statewide Summer Reading Program PSA page to preview the videos and get the codes to embed them on your own pages.
This year the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) has created 4 pieces of art work for use on web sites of partnering organizations. Any school, business, government office, non-profit organization, etc. that would like to help promote the summer reading can use the artwork and link to the web page of the summer reading program at the local public library or link directly to the official New York Statewide Summer Reading Program web site.
Award-winning animators to launch the New York State Library’s 2009 Statewide Summer Reading Program with premiere of “Be Creative @ Your Library” public service announcement Award-winning animators Frank & Caroline Mouris will present the 2009 Summer Reading Program’s animated public service announcement, “Be Creative at Your Library,” which will be aired across the country. The Statewide Summer Reading Program is an annual program sponsored by the New York State Library.
Jeffrey W. Cannell, Deputy Commissioner of Cultural Education, New York State Education Department, is the featured speaker and will announce this year’s summer reading themes. Immediately following the launch ceremonies, Academy-award winning filmmaker Frank Mouris and his partner and wife, Caroline Mouris will show how they created the 2009 Summer Reading Program’s animated public service announcement, “Be Creative at Your Library.” The highly celebrated Mouris team has created in their signature collage style works seen on Sesame Street, Nickelodeon, HBO, MTV, and many others.
Their independent film work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Film Registry, and others. This event, a New York State Library presentation, is part of the New York State Museum series of family programs, and marks the statewide launch of the annual summer reading program sponsored by the New York State Library, which is offered in more than 1,100 locations across the state and serves more than one and a half million school-age children ranging from kindergarten through high school.
