StoryTubes is here! From New York to California, kids in Grades 1-6 are talking up their favorite books. You can too!
Along with your parent or guardian, follow these simple steps:
- Make a 2-minute video about your favorite book;
- Upload the video to YouTube; and
- Come to this StoryTubes website and send in the link to your uploaded YouTube video using the online Contest Entry Form.
Beginning April 1, your video becomes part of a national contest!
Voting mania will then begin and happen each week in May! At the end of each week, one lucky contestant will win $500 in books. Their sponsoring organization (school, library or designated organization for home-schooled youth) will receive $1,000 in books.
Four Video Categories:
Hair-Raising Tales
From or For the Heart
Of Heroes and Heroines
Facts, Fads and PhenomsThe StoryTubes partner libraries are: Northeast: Middle Country Public Library of Centereach; NY; Southeast: The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County/ImaginOn, Charlotte, NC; Midwest: Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, IL; Northwest: King County Library System, Issaquah, WA; and Southwest: Pasadena Public Library, Pasadena, CA.
Find out more at: http://www.storytubes.info/
[...] @ 8:45 am Note the shift in what constitutes “literacy” in a digital world with this storytube contest. [...]
In order to make a 2 minute video, the young person would need to
a) read the book !
and
b) spend time planning, organizing, and actually creating the video.
These ARE literary skills…
I think it’s a great idea !