Book+and+Library+Promotion

=CANVA =

https://www.canva.com/ Online Publishing/Marketing Tool

=Samples and Ideas = Promote books, other resources, or events You can also easily create online posters, flyers, and more with provided layouts.



=Pros = Lots of great layouts Easy drag and drop interface Lots of professional images for 1.00 each to use if you don't want to use your own. Free if you want to use your own images.

=Cons = Must register with email It costs money for each image you use every time you use it ($1.00 at the time this was published). You only have 24 hours to finish your project with an image you paid for. Then you must pay again.

=Pixteller.com= "Create your own amazing engaging images, posters, banners, social media covers, graphics for print or any design you want for free." https://pixteller.com/

=Samples & Ideas= Promote books, resources, and activities. Create banners and covers for your social media accounts.



=Pros= Free and you can upload your own fonts. LOTS of free images and shapes. Super easy to use and download or share or download your creations to social media with the touch of a button. You can use layering to send images behind or in front of other images.

=Cons= You only get 5 free images a month without a watermark. You must sign up to use, but you can sign in with Google or Facebook.

=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Goodreads.com = __@http://www.goodreads.com__ Community of readers which allows you to customize and embed a virtual bookshelf into blogs or websites. There are three different styles of widget you can choose from. Have students develop one for book club or for their reading class!

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Samples and Ideas
Embed into your website to showcase reading lists Keep up with those many books you read. Pull up the list whenever someone asks for good recommendations or look up their many lists of recommended books curated by users. Review books you are reading and share them with your patrons. Find the order of books in a series and see when the next installment is supposed to published. View author pages and participate in chats with them.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Pros
Very visual Easy to use You must login to view anything on the site though your patrons can still see your "shelf" as a widget on your website without having to login.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cons
Requires email Some posts by members are not student friendly if they "dig" down far enough Note: you may want one personal account and one account for your school.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 32px;">**Animoto**
<span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">@http://animoto.com/ <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">Sign up for a free education account: @https://animoto.com/education/classroom

Create a slide show with great transitions and add captions or music


 * Tutorial available on handout page**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Samples and Ideas
Create booktrailers or have students create them. Showcase new books or award winners.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Pros
Lots of great backgrounds, transitions, and copyright free music. Will give you 50 free student accounts with an educator membership. Just sign up like you would for a new account, but on the email attach to your account ex: library1+youremail.com, library2+youremail.com. See the animoto help section for more information on this.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Cons
Costs money if the video is over 30 seconds unless you have an educator account. Video can be made for $3.00 each or you can pay a subscription fee.

Book Trailers for All
@https://www.youtube.com/user/booktrailers4all Copyright clear booktrailers you can embed into your website

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Pros
Anyone can share or embed Free Copyright clear

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Cons
Can't change any of the content. Be sure to preview as quality varies. Has not been updated recently

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">PhotoPeach
<span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">@http://photopeach.com/ Create an embeddable slideshow that is either linear or spiraling

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Samples and Ideas
Showcase pictures of library events or books in one of two formats (music optional): Create book trailers with questions for the reader on plot or content

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Pros
You can create a spiral of pictures, and the viewer can zoom in and out on them. If you don't like the spiral format, you can create a professional-looking slideshow. Allows a short quiz. Can have an entire class log in with the same ID.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Cons
Costs money to download the slideshow but not to embed.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 32px;">**StoryBird**
@http://storybird.com/

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Samples and Ideas
Poetry: @http://storybird.com/books/distance/ Discuss habitats Genre stories Thematic units to cover mini research like a unit on bats Behavioral inspiration: http://storybird.com/books/free-to-choose/# Create stories similar to books: http://storybird.com/books/if-you-give-your-teacher-coffee/

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Pros
Can view stories without subscribing Can add as many pages as you'd like Can create class and add students Allows you to control privacy settings and add assignments

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Cons
Requires an account to create/requires validation for teacher only. Can't have multiple classes

=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Photosnack = @http://www.photosnack.com/

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Samples and Ideas
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Pros
Easy to create slideshows Many different Templates Provides embed code or link

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cons
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Limited music choices Requires email and verification Adds at start up

=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">IFakeText = <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|http://ifaketext.com]

=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Samples and Ideas = <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Create a screenshot of two characters in a book talking and have kids guess which book the characters are from. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Creat a screenshot of two people discussing a library skill in which one answers a question the other has. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Have students creat screenshots to demonstrate a concept or skill they learned. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">

=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Pros = <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Free, easy to use, and requires no personal information or email addresses. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Screenshot can be shared via popular social networking sites, email, direct link or they can be embedded into websites/wikis. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Students could also use a free screenshot program to capture and save their screenshot.

=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cons = <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">There's an ad banner at the top, but nothing inappropriate.

=Scoop.it!= Scoop.it allows the user to curate or aggregate articles from around the web and put them on a scoop.it page for that topic which you can then embed in a webpage and/or feed through your Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, etc.

=Samples and Ideas= Post (rescoop) articles and reviews to inform your patrons about new books or post articles your patrons may find of interest. Post articles about technology or education or other topics faculty and staff at your school may find interesting.

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=Pros= It's free! Easy to use. There is even a bookmarklet you can put in your bookmarks bar to easily add articles or websites to your topic/feed.

=Cons= It takes a little while to get used to how it works and how to navigate.

=Spicynodes= www.spicynodes.org

Spicynodes is a graphic organizer that is simple to use, but does require registration. Does have a gallery you can use or share.

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=Pros= It's free! Easy to use. Instead of typing in small boxes there is a tab for text and then it places your text into boxes. Can add photos or videos.

=Cons= It can be a little slow to load.

=Magnoto= @http://www.magnoto.com/ Create a virtual cork-board or refrigerator with your own content.

=Samples and Ideas= Use for library news media type="custom" key="20516132" Create a board with author/character information Create a board with club information =Pros= It's free! Quick way to create a visual product

=Cons= Remember to write down your web address-you log in from there not the main magnoto account (once you create your account) Not a lot of bells and whistles right now because still in beta mode. Requires email Lots of adds on side

=Warning Sign Generator= @http://www.warningsigngenerator.com/ Create your own warning/caution signs for any topic

=Samples and Ideas= Book promotion Attention-getters =Pros= No account required Fast Very easy to use

=Cons= Only 6 lines Limited choices (might be a pro for some)

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