Book Trailers:
My class
recently wrote historical fiction pieces and then created Book Trailers on
iMovie to help study characters, setting, plot, and foreshadowing. This was an excellent activity because the
kids were thoroughly engaged! They
brought in costumes and props, found online pictures to project onto the
SMARTboard as backgrounds, and wrote out their storyboard so that all main
characters and the main conflict of their stories would be identified. They had a BLAST.
iMovie is
incredibly easy to use. To create a book
trailer, all you have to do is click the + in the right corner of the iPad,
select “Trailer,” and then choose a theme/storyboard to complete with videos on
your iPad and text that you input directly onto the storyboard itself. With the students being as tech-savvy as they
are, they picked it up without a glitch and even more quickly than I did!
Here’s a photo
I tweeted out during their presentations (this one was about Argentine pirates!)
I’ll have a video example coming
SOON!
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