This is my first response to your blog despite being a reader or “lurker” if you will for many months. Your feed pops up daily on my igoogle start page through the google reader widget. Thank you so much for all that you do for educational technology-it is inspiring! The reason I chose this post to finally introduce myself and leave a comment is because of the Great Book Stories wiki- what an awesome project! I consider myself somewhat of a VoiceThread junkie since I have been researching it for my graduate class this summer, and am thrilled when I see great ‘best practice’ ideas like this come up. The fact that Great Book Stories is a wiki is even better, because as we have seen with sites like Tim’s Mathcast 500 project and Colletes VoiceThread 4 Education- the results can be spectacular. So thanks again, and I plan to share Great Book Stories at a local tech conference I will be presenting at for VoiceThread this month.
-Brad W. my ‘newbie’ blog is http://www.dreambition.blogspot.com

The wiki that we’re trying to build is not for publishing purposes but for sharing curriculum tools for this project. We’ve just begun to put it together. So, it’s not really up and ready. But, it’s a start. The goal is to help teachers to use book trailers in their reading program and across the curriculum by providing ideas, tools and support for teaching essential skills (such as literary analysis, visual communication and design, typography, film literacy, research skills, use of support and direct quotes, attribution, and technological tools) We’re hoping to get other teachers onboard to contribute content to the the wiki with their content making it easier for others to replicate. You can find the wiki at http://www.booktrailer.pbwiki.com.