ARTS 2.0Arts, Learning and Web 2.0 Tools in your Library

Arts in my Library?

What might that look like?

Singing in the Library

Concert in the Library

What better way to share music in the library then to have a choral concert in the library. Perfect for beginning of the year orientations, holidays, book fairs, or parent nights. It may not be quiet but it will be beautiful.

Web 2.0 Tools

Record the performances load them and share them on School tube or Teacher tube.

http://www.teachertube.com/

http://www.schooltube.com/

Songwriting Contest

Have a songwriting contest where students can showcase their musical pieces in the library. Each piece could be performed live in the library for an evening performance, which could also include a night of storytelling, theater and poetry.

Web 2.0 Tools

Use writing tools such as Thumbscribes.

Use Answer Garden or Poll Everywhere to take a poll of the students.

https://www.thumbscribes.com/login.php

http://answergarden.ch/

http://www.polleverywhere.com/

Band in the Library

Concert in the Library

It may be difficult to have the entire band in your library but parts of the band, or small group bands can always play for events. Think how great it will be to have a band in your library and it will definitely draw a crowd.

Web 2.0 Tool

Share this event live on Vokle

http://www.vokle.com/

Books and Instruments

People are fascinated with those who know how to play an instrument. Set up students and adults throughout the library with their various instruments in their own listening and playing stations.

Web 2.0 Tools

Skype in a musician to interview about their instrument. Have them play or perform a small concert.

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/home

Books and Bands

Feature books from the library and have the band play songs that embody the particular time period of that book. (Ex. Jazz by Walter Dean Myers: Jazz Music). If a student reads a short or picture book afterwards a short piece could be played by the band.

Web 2.0 Tools

Have students take pictures of the events. Load them on a power point and narrate the power point using Knovio.

http://www.knovio.com/

Theater in the Library

Book Commercials

Students can advertise books for the library through book commercials. These short commercials are simply student advertisements for books. They can do them alone, with a partner, or in groups.

Web 2.0 Tools

Use 60 Second Recap to get ideas

Record them on your own School Tube Channel

http://www.60secondrecap.com/

Reader’s Theater and Storytelling Reader’s Theater,

Storytelling, and Puppets can be for many different grade levels. Have students turn their favorite stories and books into plays and perform them for their peers.

Web 2.0 Tools

Use Zooburst or Storybird to create your own stories.

Use a Smartboard or any board technology and share stories from International Children’s Digital Library

http://www.zooburst.com/

http://storybird.com/

http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

Visual Arts in the Library

Book Posters

Students can create their own advertisements for their favorite books and be creative while doing it. Have each student pick a favorite book and then create a visual representation that publicizes why other students should read that book as well.

Web 2.0 Tools

Instead of paper posters use Glogster and create digital posters.

http://edu.glogster.com/

Library Color Schemes

If your library is labeled by area; (ex. Non-fiction, Fiction, Biography, ESL) have your students help you paint and create a new color scheme each year for your media center.

Web 2.0 Tools

Use Flockdraw to design ideas

Use 42 Tasks or Todo ly to make a timeline of your tasks.

http://flockdraw.com/

http://42tasks.com/

http://todo.ly/

Dance in the Library

Book Dance

Have students read a book and then have them turn it into an interpretive dance. It doesn’t matter the style, the music doesn’t matter either, it’s the imagination and creativity that’s important. Students can create these individually or in groups.

WHAT IS IT? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ALP8ISKgOw

Web 2.0 Tools

Share the event live with Vokle. Let students describe the activity afterwards with word clouds using Tagxedo.

http://www.tagxedo.com/

Dance Concerts

Similar to Band and Choral Concerts, librarians can always open the library up as a performance space for dance. Invite parents, teachers, peer students, administrators, and other community members to a dance performance that will take place in the library.

Web 2.0 Tools

Take pictures of concerts and share them in an Animoto or Slideshare slide show.

http://animoto.com/

http://www.slideshare.net/

Arts Integration

Poetry Slam Living Museum Coffee Shop

Performances

Art presentations for

African American History Month

Women’s History Month

Hispanic History Month

Many More

Questions/Discussion

For more ideas visit

www.actinginthelibrary.com This slide show is available at

this site as well.