Another site for classroom libraries is referenced in this nice "Creating a Classroom" article on Reading Rockets: http://www.readingrockets.org/article/29298
The article references the online service at: http://www.librarything.com/ I have not used this resource, but recalled some conversations with people that did and really like it. My caution to educators is to make sure you test any of these referenced sites and also let your administrator(s) and tech people know what you want to achieve by using these services. One more idea that I thought of is to use a classroom blog. I won't go into links or providers. You could create a blog with you (teacher) as owner and then create a secondary user (contributor). Students would use the secondary user/contributor to create book info. Teacher/owner would have to "approve" all the entries. In blog I would see a teacher setting up various categories for books. In a blog like this, you could also allow for "comments" which would include your students or other that want to add "their voice" to the book into. Of course, the teacher/owner can set comments so that they must have approval before being posted on the site. The key idea would be that the teachers must approve anything before it is posted on the blog. We run Word Press "MU" (multiple user) for blogs at the http://www.literacyworkshop.org website . This is "free" software that could easily be integrated by schools. If you have questions or want help on this you can email me off-list. Thanks, Keith Mack Web Administrator http://www.literacyworkshop.org _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
