1. Sharing Stories, Becoming Storytellers

2. Origins of The Bayview School Family Literacy Day Hotline Our school parent council asked me to set up a kind of "Speaker's Corner" in the school where children and families could record a message about their favorite books. I took it one step further and set up a free voicemail number at 705 540 7023 (a local number), which forwards an mp3 of the messages to my email. http://familyliteracy.edublogs.org

3. How Does this Project Promote Literacy and Engage Our Community? Reviews of favorite stories in their own voices. The website has become a collection of stories which are important to children, teachers and families in our school community. The resource is also available to others worldwide. We have had authors respond to audio reviews. Privacy Note: We only use the voices and first names of our children to respect their online privacy.

4. How Can You Get a Free Voicemail Number? In the United States: Google Voice In Canada: Freephoneline.ca There are many other options http://www.freecenter.com/voicemail.html Try searching google for "Free Voicemail"

5. Free Online Tools Used for our Website Free Blog: Edublogs.org Alternate Free Blog Sites o Wordpress.com o Blogspot.com Librarything.com : Online Book Community (For Cover Widget) Openlibrary.org: For links to book pages and covers. flash-mp3-player.netflash-mp3-player.net - Mp3 player sidebar widget

6. Other Useful Free Tools and Resources Audacity: Free Open-Source Multitrack Audio Editor. audacity. sourceforge.net Bitstrips for Schools: bitstripsforschools.com Soundcloud.com : A free site for hosting audio files Archive.org: A huge archive of free and public domain material. They also allow you to host your media files.

7. Updating Our Family Literacy Day Website http://familyliteracy.edublogs.org 1.Write a brief summary of who is doing the review, the book title and author. 2.Upload the mp3 of the review to from my email to the blogpost. 3.Link to a cover image of the book and it's page on Openlibrary.org 4.Add the book to our collection on Librarything.com

8. How Could You Use Free Online Tools to Engage Your School Community?

9. Let's Continue The Conversation Sean McGaughey Teacher- Bayview Public School, Midland Ontario Twitter: @Sean_McGaughey Blog: Educational Alchemy: http://edalchemy.edublogs.orghttp://edalchemy.edublogs.org Email: ductapeguy@gmail.com

10. Credits This presentation was prepared with the assistance of staff and students and Bayview Public School. http://bay.scdsb.on.ca Audio Recording: Jennifer Writing: Collin, Rowan, Dustin, Mr. McGaughey Camera Operators: Collin, Rowan Featuring the voices of: Zeliah, Kevin, Anum, Liam, Liam, Liam, Ben, Hilary, Jennifer, Parker, Dustin, Mr. Berdan and Alma ABC Life Literacy Canada Family Literacy Day: January 27 http://abclifeliteracy.ca/family-literacy-day http://abclifeliteracy.ca/family-literacy-day Book Cover imageBook Cover image C C/attribution by Jo Naylor on flickrCJo Naylor Background Music: Pencil in the Hand: by PopplePopple Sharing Stories, Becoming Storytellers by Sean McGaughey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada License.Sean McGaugheyCreative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada License