Today I attended a session at the Region 10 service center called Book Trailers for All: Creating Digital Book Trailers. It was awesome! If you are a teacher, and would like to introduce a book to your class, or if you are a librarian who is looking for innovative ways to promote titles in your library collection, then you have to have book trailers in your life! The presenter at the workshop was Teresa Schauer. If you are a librarian who subscribes to LM _Net or TLC you may recognize her name from posts to those library listservs. She is a school librarian and site owner/creator of the website Book Trailers for All or BTFA. Check out the BTFA Facebook page too. The website has book trailers for titles on just about every grade level. There is also a wealth of information on how to create trailers, and how to teach your students to create them as well.
In the session, Teresa told us how she started Book Trailers for All. Then we learned how to create a book trailer of our own using images, text, and music on Animoto. Educators can sign up for a free account with Animoto that comes with a promo code to create 50 student accounts. I ran into a glitch with adding music to my book trailer this afternoon. However, when I complete it I plan to upload it onto the blog. I'm looking forward to teaching students how to create book trailers.
