Making & Sharing Book Trailers

Having a difficult time convincing students to read? Promote reading in your classroom or library with book trailers. These commercials sell books to a digital audience like today s student. Learn to create trailers in three different skill levels and find ways to share them with your students, parents, administrators, and teachers. Book also includes ideas for incorporating student-created book trailers into the English Language Arts classroom to fulfill required objectives. Benefits: * Promotes reading * Engage digital learners Topics include: Features: * Steps to making book trailers * Finding images and audio online * Creating citations for fair use * Sharing trailers inside the school environment * Sharing trailers on the web * Flickr * Creative Commons * Jamendo * Animoto * Photo Story 3