Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Thing 3
I am very interested in using blogs in the school library as a way to connect students and teachers with books. The library catalog has interactive features that I demonstrated to many classes last year, but I was disappointed that its use dropped way down after the initial demonstration. A few students wrote book reviews throughout the year, but not as many as I hoped. I should talk to the teachers to find out how a library blog might tie into their classes and how digital book reviews could be treated as assignments. But then I would be concerned about students without home computer access, so library access would have to be built into this plan. I really want to figure out a way to make this happen because I think it is one of the best ways to use technology to promote reading.
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Hi Betsy,
ReplyDeleteI have tried to get my Book Club students to use a blog -- I set it up 5 years ago as a way for students to pose questions or to share their thoughts as they were reading or if they couldn't make the book discussion -- and aside from the meeting when I made them all go in and post to the blog -- they don't seem interested! They want the face to face discussion with other students....
Betsy
ReplyDeleteI believe that the LRW teen page also does not have a huge following, and, unfortunately unless there is a grade or an assignment, I'm not sure that you find a ton of interest in a library blog yet. But, there may be other ways to get them hooked...
Joan