For the "Free Choice", I chose to work with Shelfari. It is based on
an Amazon account, and since I don't have one, I had to create a new
one. Once in, I really liked the visual aspects of this. It was pretty
user friendly. You choose from books you've read, books you are
currently reading, or books you want to read. It allows you to write
short summaries, tag key words, rate books, and much more. Then, it
presents it all in a nice visual format.
There are lots
of options for sharing with others - people can see your shelf, you can
connect it to other social media sites, etc.
As you
can see by my shelf, I like to read mostly books that are on the Best
Seller list. I haven't read a lot recently, probably due to the fact
that I have 2 young kids at home and not a lot of time for that. Most
of the books I searched for and put on were children's literature.
I
think it would be fun to use this in a classroom setting, possibly
using one since (teacher) account, where my students could add and rate
books they enjoy. It would be sort of a virtual "classroom library".
Unfortunately, given my student's cognitive and reading levels, not a
lot of recreational reading of books takes place. I think my favorite
feature of this is the nice visual presentation it has.
I could see this being very useful in the classroom, especially if students are required to read a certain amount of books. They could read each other's comment to see what the book is all about! Good synopsis.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you picked Shelfari! I wanted to use it on my library homepage last year but couldn't get it to embed and so I gave up. I'm going to try again as maybe it's easier now.
ReplyDeletelove this. This would be great for our students. I wonder if we could make a book shelf with books of other states/countries for them to page through during the week we review that particular state/country?
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