A different way to do #BookSnaps

Last week, I had the opportunity to collaborate with my co-worker, Mrs. Gretchen Meyer, an ELA teacher.  She wanted her students to learn a series of Makerspace activities to support the deep thinking involved in Readers/Writers Workshop.  She decided that these activities would be an option for students on a menu as a way of deep thinking about what they were reading.  In today's post, I am going to describe how we used the green screen with the DoInk app to create a different way to do #BookSnaps.

I wanted to do an activity with the green screen where a class of students would be engaged and be able to use it in a 45 minute period.

1. Students read for a period of time from their self chosen books to find a significant quote.

2. They then had to use their deep thinking to explain why this quote was significant.  Mrs. Meyer provided them an anchor chart with sentence stems as a guide.

3. Students wrote briefly about their thinking and when approved by Mrs. Meyer or me, they could take a picture of the page of the book that the quote was on using an iPad and then use the markup in the iPad photo app to underline the quote.

4. I recorded them on the green screen discussing their thinking and their significant quote.

5. Finally, I used the DoInk app to create a video of them on their book page discussing their quote.

See the example attached below.

https://twitter.com/BIS_library/status/936705895681155079