Forgot to Mention Book Bytes....

I completely forgot that last week I completed my Book Bytes form for the students to use. Kids will fill it out for a favorite book, and the best of those will end up podcast and available on the school website. I have high hopes of getting a few good ones up this year, and maybe getting into it more heavily next year. While I was out for training last week, I had all my language arts students fill out a form for a book they've read this year. I was sorely disappointed by the results, but there are a very few (3 or 4?) that are potentially usable. My next form to invent or procure is the one for getting permission from parents to post students' voice recordings on the web.

Then again, I wonder if I could use something cuter for these? Like a Voki? I bet my kids would LOVE designing their own talking avatars, recording audio, and letting the characters "read" the review aloud. That would maybe entice some of my shyer kids into participating.

Here is the Google Docs form of the Book Bytes paper. The formatting is all munged up, since it's originally a word document, but it lets you see the form the script would take.