I've been enjoying myself in so many ways, and can prove it with these holiday pictures. But I've missed my blog and have left it on its own for too long. Thanks to those of you who were in the NYSCATE workshop and who emailed me afterwards. I love to hear of the good instructional use you are making of the online tools we tried together! 
Here's a new and nifty way to have your students respond to the books they are reading. At LibraryThing you can create a "library" for your students. Signing in is free and you can enter up to 200 books for free...after that it is either $10 for a year or $25 for a lifetime membership. If your class reads more than 200 books, it is worth every cent of $10 to keep track! It won't take you more than a few minutes to master the intricacies of this site. Your students can enter their books, read other reviews of their books, then write a review of their own. And what fun it will be to watch the list of books grow.
I ran across references to a teriffic little video called Web2.0...The Machine Is Us/ing Us. It's well worth the few minutes it takes to watch it.
Here's a new and nifty way to have your students respond to the books they are reading. At LibraryThing you can create a "library" for your students. Signing in is free and you can enter up to 200 books for free...after that it is either $10 for a year or $25 for a lifetime membership. If your class reads more than 200 books, it is worth every cent of $10 to keep track! It won't take you more than a few minutes to master the intricacies of this site. Your students can enter their books, read other reviews of their books, then write a review of their own. And what fun it will be to watch the list of books grow.
I ran across references to a teriffic little video called Web2.0...The Machine Is Us/ing Us. It's well worth the few minutes it takes to watch it.
