The first artifact I chose to show my learning from my EEND 677 course was a book trailer for Julius Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes. I chose to create a trailer for this book because it is a book that I want my students to be excited about reading. The story has clear plot elements and shows how a character changes so I have refer to this story when teaching my fiction unit. I created this book trailer using Adobe Spark. I found that Adobe Spark was very user friendly. It had tutorials and templates to create videos with. One challenge with creating the trailer was making sure that I changed the image in the video frequent enough to keep my students engaged while watching it. I wanted to be sure that the trailer excited them and could hold their attention. I would love to have my students create book trailers to replace traditional book reports. I think they would love creating them and it would show me how well they comprehended the book that they read. The only challenge would be that the students would need to record themselves talking so they would have to take turns to ensure that the rest of the room was quiet so that the listeners could clearly understand what was being said in the book trailer. My students could also create trailers to share their nonfiction research. After researching a topic, I could have them find images and record themselves sharing facts about their topic. This would be an engaging way for them to share with their classmates.
References
Adobe Spark (2017). Retrieved from https://spark.adobe.com/
Henkes, K. (2007). Julius, the Baby of the World. New York: Greenwillow Books.
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