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Creating Book Trailers to Spark Reading and

Promote 21st Century Literacy

Creating Book Trailers: A digital alternative to book reports

Book Trailers...

Promote Reading

Engaging Digital Natives

Are FUN!

Process:

1) Expose students to examples of book trailers

http://tinyurl.com/c5zp95g

2) Pick the right book to read

3) Write a script

4) Complete a Story Board

This is found in Google Docs

Introduce author & characters

Describe the action

Don't give away plot twists!

Don't give away the ending!

5) Find pictures

Use Google images or

Take digital pictures

Pay attention to

  • Voice
  • Music
  • Images

Here comes the fun!

6) Begin creating your book trailer

Remember to save to your book trailer folder!

Choose a tool to use:

Animoto

Example

Photostory

Example

Moviemaker

iMovie (Mac)

Voicethread

http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=2963895

Other ways to use Animoto, Photostory, Moviemaker

or Voicethread:

  • Digital Story Telling
  • Photo Journals for labs, trips, etc.
  • Instructional Videos
  • Short Stories using student illustrations
  • Timelines/History Projects
  • Sequencing of events

Summarizing stories

  • Science Processes; Lifecycle
  • How to solve Math Equations
  • Creation of Poetry and Narration

Beauty: Aids all styles of learners!

It's YOUR turn!

Credits:

  • Stacy Bumgamer "BookTrailers 101"
  • Lisa Stringfellow "Engaging readers digitally"
  • Students from Dr. Smirnova's "Social Studies Methods" classes of 2012

Dr. Ludmilla Smirnova

Example:

http://tinyurl.com/83fh5jn

http://tinyurl.com/7j75xnt

Example

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