Just One More Book
Ok, so here’s my current favorite website about books! Andrea and Mark over at Just One More Book post a thrice-weekly podcast celebrating children’s books and literacy out of their favorite coffee shop someplace in Canada. Great interviews (Esme Raji Codell, Mo Willems & Jack Pretlusky to name a few), reviews and good old book talk! Great concept, and I love the web design. Kudos to Snowyday design–gorgeous! You can even submit your own podcast review for their listener imput show. I may just have to try it!
If I was really techy, I’d imbed their promo podcast right here and let you listen!
Online Book Club
After reading about Cindy’s creation of a Blog for her in-class book clubs that are the focus of her research (See her great book, The Book Club Companion: Fostering Strategic Readers in the Secondary Classroom
I’m thinking about creating a blog to continue a book club I started for my son and some classmates during middle school. They’ve moved on to high school and between rigorous academic and extra-curricular schedules, we’re having a difficult time meeting. Plus, it’s time to think about starting my daughter’s book club now that she’s in middle school. I’ll be inviting some of the high schoolers to join me as mentors for this middle school group.
Our use of a blog would be different. The students in the classes that Cindy is working with will use the blog to extend their conversations beyond their in-class book club meetings. We would use the blog to actually hold the book club. It won’t be your traditional book club either. There may be times when we read the same book and post and comment–but I also can imagine posting and commenting on any books we’re reading for school or pleasure and see what happens with these conversations. A blog might not be the best tech format for this, but quite honestly, it’s the format I want them to experience. I really want them to experience the power of learning collaboratively from each other and the power of using writing to reflect on learning. I’ll keep you posted when I get things started.
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I do a lot of thinking about marketing in my field of education, so I love this stance on blogs. Interested in learning more about how to promote your blog? Go on over to Motherread and read the suggestions she made in a recent presentation at the Kidlitosphere Conference. As I continue to explore blogging, here’s one of her suggestions I’m working on:
A Particular Niche: Children’s literature is already a tight topic area, but you’ll stand out if you have a niche. Think about what unique perspective you have to bring to the table.
Blogs for Books
Check this great resource compiled by Esme Raji Codell over at Planet Esme! A list of blogs about books and reading put together after her attendance at THE KIDLITOSPHERE CONFERENCE which was an opportunity for book-loving cyberspace folks to come together and figure ways to best share information on the art of book-sharing online through blogs, podcasts and more. More about this event over at Planet Esme.
Mother Reader
http://www.motherreader.com/
Big A Little A
http://kidslitinformation.blogspot.com/
Just One More Book
http://www.justonemorebook.com
Jen Robinson’s Book Page
http://jkrbooks.typepad.com
What Adrienne Thinks About That
http://www.watat.com
A Chair, A Fireplace and a Tea Cozy
http://yzocaet.blogspot.com/
Book Buds
http://dadtalk.typepad.com
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/
Wizards Wireless
http://wizardswireless.blogspot.com/
A Year of Reading
http://readingyear.blogspot.com/
The Edge of the Forest
http://www.theedgeoftheforest.com/
Booktopia
http://booktopia.blogspot.com/
Tweendom
http://tweendom.blogspot.com/
The Miss Rumphius Effect
http://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/
A Fuse #8 Production
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1790000379.html
PixiePalace.com
http://www.pixiepalace.com/
Jacket Flap
http://jacketflap.com/
Three Silly Chicks
http://threesillychicks.com/
Chicken Spaghetti
http://chickenspaghetti.typepad.com
Purled Pouches and Things Unstrung
http://purledpouches.blogspot.com
The PlanetEsme Plan
www.planetesme.blogspot.com
Happy Reading and commenting!
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