Course Materials: Project 3 Examples
This selected list is intended to give a sense of the types of projects that were completed in previous classes.
A Survey of the Attitudes of Patrons of the Bethel College Library to the Audio-Visual Collection (Blowers)
This project involved a survey of faculty, staff, and students of Bethel College. The purpose of the survey was to determine patrons' perceptions of the audio-visual collection.
Audiobook Collection Promotion (Frondorf)
A promotion program for the media center's new audiobook collection had been developed. Included in this promotion are newsletters, flyers, brochures, posters, booktalks, bulletin board idea, announcements, and a powerpoint presentation.
Audiovisual Collection Survey (Burns)
Asked my colleagues at our middle school to share their thoughts, opinions, and ideas about the existing collection--its development, maintenance, and circulation. Their reflections will aid in a plan for the collection as the media specialist position is being eliminated due to budget cuts.
Audio-Visual Patron Survey (Millis)
The survey I prepared was designed to get a general feel for the types of audio-visual materials both used and wanted by patrons of my local branch library as well as their feelings regarding number of checkout days and fines for overdue materials. I compiled results from 37 completed surveys and presented the findings to library management for their consideration in budgeting for new materials. My biggest findings: patrons requested more DVD movies and more books on CD.
Audio Visual Survey at Kitley Intermediate (Cross)
The Kitley Staff was surveyed on the use of audio books, videos, and DVDs in our media center. The staff was also asked if they wanted to order their own videos departmentally. The survey found the staff to be pleased overall but many are not using the card catalog on their teacher workstations to find what we have. As we are a new school, I found teachers might want to order their own videos depending on the subject area, and we need an inservice on the card catalog.
Color in Animation (Wininger)
I created a lesson plan that uses Disney animated movies to study the emotional power of color in films. I geared the plan towards 7-8th grade. After analyzing how color affect the mood in animated films, students will create their own storyboards using colors.
Film Festival Promotion (Blanton)
Promotional web site including flyers, calendars, and descriptions of the yearly Friends Film Fest. Topic was The Cost of Freedom. Films included from Bosnia, Africa, China, Italy, and India.
Holes Mania! (Highley)
I purchased the Holes audiobook for school, and some teachers used it. I found Holes for $0.95 on the February Carnival book order form (Scholastic), and sold about 250 copies at school! I created Holes trivia contests for both the book and movie, and for the three winners, I had Louis Sachar autograph copies of Holes when he spoke in Indianapolis on April 25 (I even got a few brief seconds to talk to him and he asked for a sample question.) I have periodic book clubs meet after school, and this week it will be Holes, of course. Students will be able to create videos of their own movie reviews, and we will listen to part of the book and compare/contrast the book/tape/movie. I have also created a webpage with Holes resources for kids to use.
Media Literacy/Advertising: Is Seeing Believing? (Peachey)
This unit of study uses commercials to analyze advertising concepts, stereotypes, and persuasive techniques. Students then create their own effective, bias-free, positive commercials.
Middle School Survey (Graham)
I completed a patron survey among middle school surveys to examine how often the library is used by them and if they were aware of the different types of media available to them. Very few students used the library to access videos, cd's and other non-print material.
Movie/Book Connection (Crain)
I adapted a current program to include movies students have seen and books students have read. They prepare a comparison sheet for titles they choose and place it in a spiral ring notebook for other students to peruse. It lets them share what they've read/watched and they receive a "Blazer Buck" for participation, good for use in the Media Center or cafeteria.
"Movie Mania" (Durkel)
Languages Arts/Literacy lesson using movies; student compare historical accuracy in the movie to the actual historic facts.
"Moving Words INSPIRE Moving Pictures" (Knueven)
The idea for this promotional project came from a strong interest in books that are made into movies and a poster I once saw in a catalog which read "Moving Words Inspire Moving Pictures." Many students in our middle school are very excited to read books once a movie has been made, so I decided to capitalize on that by visiting reading classes, promoting books and their movies, creating book/movie displays, and sponsoring a drawing for "Holes" movie tickets and books.
Nature Center (Distler)
I purchased many new audio/video materials to help teachers plan their instructional lessons involving the Nature Center. Bookmarks and flyers are included for teachers!!
Parents and Programming (Boone)
As parents, how can we impact our children's education, more especially literacy development, over the summer? Can we do it on a shoestring budget. Field trip suggestion coupled with audio and visual materials from the collection of the Westfield Public Library.
Survey of Teachers at Westside Christian School Regarding Video and Audiobook Needs and Uses (Roesler)
The purpose of this project was to develop the library audio and video collection. The responses were very helpful and will be used in making purchases for the next year.
Streaming Video via Webcasting (Wilson)
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You will have to contact me to set up a time to view this project. I can stream live personal video, live television broadcasts, or pre-recorded video using this system. This system could easily be adapted to offer virtual reference services to patrons of any library.
Video Promotion: “Classics Collection” (Costides)
This is a promotion campaign for a monthly film series. This series is for the month of March in honor of Oscars month. Four Classic films will be shown.
The Wright Brothers: From Dayton to Kittyhawk (Clingman)
This was an existing Webquest for 6th-8th grade students that I had created, but this course gave me the opportunity to change the original focus that was print-based. The new focus changed to the students creating online Newsletters about the Wright Brothers that would incorporate movie clips about the Wright Brothers. I added the movie clips links in the Webquest and also added several Wright Brothers videos that students could check out for further viewing that are owned by the Dayton Metro Library.