My Book Map

I made this book map as an example for Educ 535 at Penn.

It's not perfect.

After I made the video, I realized that I didn't have enough time in the video to explain most of the books I chose. And, I realized that I didn't have enough time to go into pretty much all of the complicated issues around reading - how hard reading is for some students and how the types of reading in which they engage might not be valued (comic books, memes, tumblr), and how that complicates my whole, "I love books, and I want everyone else to love them, too," message.

That said, it was a lot of fun to make - Dave and I spent Friday night shooting the video with Stop Motion (which is awesome, and only costs 99 cents), and I put the rest of it together using iMovie.

In asking students to make their own book maps, I'm pointing out that I don't think my way is the right way. I used my book collection because it was a resource that I had right there. From students, I could see anything from an animoto to a glogster to a hand-drawn stop-motion map. In using the online resources, what I hope will be their biggest take-away is that, they can construct a map with paper and pen AND they can construct a map using edtech tools, too.