Booktalking Bonanza - Softcover

Betsy Diamant-Cohen; Selma K. Levi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838909655 ISBN 13: 9780838909652

Publisher: ALA Editions, 2008

Synopsis

Transform your booktalks to engage your audience! With multimedia infusing nearly every activity, today s audiences from toddlers to elders expect lively, interactive presentations. Now two award-winning experts outline their kid-tested, proven models for enlivening traditional booktalks. Get up to speed with exciting media technologies like YouTube videos, online music, PowerPoint presentations, Internet resources, and audio and video from the library collection, along with food, games, puppets, and magic or science experiments. Using these ten themed step-by-step presentations, it's easy! Quickly add whole new dimensions to the staid booktalk and

# Actively engage your young audiences
# Access ready-to-go 30-minute programs
# Present dynamic, interactive talks
# Enthrall listeners with spellbinding multimedia

Each chapter offers a complete script, along with "stage directions" which song or film clip or web link to insert when. End-of-chapter resource lists encourage librarians to tailor the subject matter to grades 4 6 or to YA audiences. Enticing, kid-friendly themes include lightning, wishes, mummies, immigration, dreams, body parts, lies, art, names, and cats and dogs.

Children's librarians, school library media specialists, and teachers will welcome these time-saving programs. Adult and YA librarians and subject specialists will be inspired to jazz things up in their own presentations. Here's the know-how to make booktalks crackle with multimedia excitement.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Betsy Diamant-Cohen is the Children s Programming Specialist at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. Library Journalnamed her a 2004 "Mover and Shaker." In 2005, she earned a doctorate in communications design from the University of Baltimore, and she holds her master s in library science from Rutgers University.

Selma Levi has been the supervisor of the children s department of the Central Library of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore since 1987. She is a professional storyteller and has done numerous presentations on storytelling and children's programming at both the state and national levels. She earned her master s degree in library science from Indiana University and served on the 1987 Newbery Award Committee.

From School Library Journal

Librarians looking for ways to engage media-obsessed children need search no further. Originally a presentation called "Booktalking with Pizzazz," presented at the 2004 American Library Association's Annual Conference, this volume is a collection of scripts for multimedia-enriched booktalks. After an introductory chapter that explains the reasoning for this approach, 10 scripts are outlined. Books, music, video, and Web sites are included for each one. The programs are geared toward elementary-aged children, although suggestions for adapting them for a middle or high school audience are included. The script for the ALA program is included, as is a concluding chapter with further advice and tips. Librarians can follow the scripts included in the book, adapt them for their own resources and needs, or use them as a place to start their own programs. Of particular interest to teachers and school library media specialists, especially those who are experienced booktalkers, this guide will help lead the way to a new kind of presentation.—Melissa Rabey, Frederick County Public Libraries, Frederick, MD
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About this edition

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0838909655
• ISBN 13: 9780838909652
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240