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Produce, Publish, and Screen Your First Bookcast

 * Tools: ** Your choice of tools. Bookcasting and Bookcast Production - Transaction Costs Matrix for suggestions.

Directions:

Step 1: Be sure to familarize yourself with the bookcast specifications and rubric before you begin this project.

Step 2: Select your book from the 2011 Prinz Award Winner and Honor Books to bookcast. Read the book and reflect upon a text-to-self, text-to-world, or text-to-text connection that you make. An artistic heads-up: you need not mention the book in your bookcast at all. See Lara's Bones of Iraq under Exemplars (Assessment) for a good example of a bookcast that artfully stands alone.

Step 3: Produce a video or audio slide show response in which you share this connection in a creative way. See Pink's Creative Elements to spark your creativity. You'll find tools and tutorials in our Personal Learning Space . ..

**Heads-up** that you must be able to upload your bookcast to YouTube. If you use Xtranormal or Animoto or any other self-publishing site, be sure to go the extra step and upload to YouTube.


 * PhotoStory Heads-Up**: Be sure to save as a wmv to upload to YouTube. Often newbies save as a project file and create all sorts of trouble for themselves.

Step 4: Publish your bookcast to YouTube and then use the YouTube embed code to embed your bookcast in your blog.