Thing #7

For me, Thing #7 will have to be....Book Trailers!
For this post, we are supposed to blog about something technology related that interests us.
I have become a huge fan of Book Trailers. For those of you that haven't had the pleasure, a Book Trailer is like a movie preview, but for books. It is tying technology into reading and hopefully trying to garner more interest in reading.
It is especially popular to create trailers for teen books, they are at an age where movies and movie stars are very popular. I recently went to a local high school to do booktalks with the high school librarian. We tried to be as funny and entertaining as possible but the teens positively perked up when we told they we were going to be showing book trailers!
You can check out the 2008 Teen Book Video Awards here. I also recommend Libba Bray's A Great a Terrible Beauty trailer, which was part of the 2006 Teen Book Video Awards. Find it here. A lot of tech savvy teens have been breaking out their video recorders and creating their own book trailers. Enjoy the show!