Smore Than Meets the Eye:
Media Sharing to Promote Your Library Services & Events
Learn How to use Smore and other media sharing tools to make posters and flyers that can be shared in social media and embedded in your wikis, blogs and webpages. Applications for use with students and teachers will also be covered in this interactive workshop and demonstration. Handouts.
Why Smore?
they're eye-catching & attention grabbing for:
- Promoting library services
- Marketing programs and services
- Providing quick updates
- Increasing your audience or reaching a new one
AASL's Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
In the category of Media Sharing, among the selections in
AASL's Best Websites for Teaching and Learning are:
- Pinterest http://pinterest.com/
- Smore https://www.smore.com/
Flyers and newsletters become a snap with Smore! Design and create professional online flyers by choosing from an array of templates, styles, and colors to compliment your individual style and audience. With Smore you can embed links, audio, video, pictures, and text into your flyers and newsletters and then publish instantly to get your message and information out quickly. Grades 6-12.
- easel.ly http://www.easel.ly/
Landing Page - Just click "Try it Now."
Sign up with Facebook or email.
You have a choice of templates or a blank.
choose "other" or "start from blank" if you want to try something different.
Title first, but you get lots of chances to edit and make changes.
you have 6 free design choices
each design has numerous background choices
8 to 21 Color Choices, depending on design
5 or 6 different fonts per design
More Backgrounds Available with Subscription
and you can create custom backgrounds
you can add titles, write paragraphs, put pictures in groups of three or as singles.
It's easy to edit, change, move and remove.
it's easy to remove, but...gone is gone!
lots of stuff to choose from
finally, give yourself some credit.
And then... get reports on your flyers.
Resources
NEW! Put Your Smores in Folders
5 Tools for Quickly Building Simple Announcements Pages
AASL Best Websites for Teaching and Learning - Pinterest Board
Camping Theme Classroom - Pinterest BoardFuture of Libraries - Infographic
How to Make Homemade Marshmallows - a SnapGuide
What Color Communicates - Infographic
Smore Staff Flyers - Official How-to's from the people at Smore.
Search SMORE - a Google Custom Search by Carla
How to Create a Google Custom Search - Free Technology for Teachers
Pinterest board of Library Smores: http://pinterest.com/cshinn4/library-smores/
https://www.smore.com/app/pages/preview/7hu6 My Smore for NCSLMA