AudioBooks

Ideas for AudioBooks
Participants to-date: Nancy, Richard, Karin, Laura, Ellen, Betsy C, Cathy, Karen Renton

We met on 10/23/07 to talk about an ACTEM presentation by Kate Smith on Literacy and Music. We are excited about focusing energy on the 6 days between Veteran's Day and Thanksgiving as the first part of that is National Book Week.

Nancy shared two sites: Karin recommended a picture book, [|"The Incredible Book Eating Boy"]. She will bring in a copy for us to see.
 * [|Mobi Stories] (from Australia)
 * http://greatbookstories.pbwiki.com/ a wiki that has [|voicethread] books by Wes Fryer and his children

Nancy and Ellen will work on an invitation to classes to join this endeavor to create an audiobook working as a class.

Karen Renton has been working with classes on creating music and is recording to an iPod. She will look into purchasing a recorder that is designed for groups.

Cathy can allocate computer lab time or assistance with iBook carts, microphones, etc. once we figure out a plan for preparing classes and recording.

Kate Smith has posted her information shared at the ACTEM07 conference:
 * [|Presentation PowerPoint](without any sound files on Slideshare.net)
 * ACTEM Handout [[file:katesmithhandout.pdf]]
 * Kate's Edublog: http://edukateme.edublogs.org/

Richard and I have read this page and are excited about this opportunity!

I started an additional page based on David's email today - Maine - 2nd Annual Digital Storytelling Festival. Please let me know let me know if there is a better way to share these.- Richard