I would go with Excel since you can teach the kids how to search for items, sort by a variety of categories (genre, author, "stars" in a review, etc). Post it to google docs so kids can access it from home and add more information. All the kids would need a gmail account, but I think it could work depending on the age of your kids. Good luck!
--- On Sun, 8/22/10, Amy Lesemann <[email protected]> wrote: From: Amy Lesemann <[email protected]> Subject: [MOSAIC] How to create a database or spreadsheet of books? To: [email protected], "Jeff Gaynor" <[email protected]>, "Tony Moskus" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, August 22, 2010, 1:44 PM Hello - I need some advice. My students have been writing short book reviews/summaries of the books they read and we're keeping them in a big notebook. But that's unwieldy and not very useful. So I want to go electronic, and have them write them (or the older kids will type them up) in a database or spreadsheet that we can then reference. That way, kids can easily see what their buddies recommend, other books by the same authors that kids have liked and so forth. What should we use - a database or a spreadsheet? Excel? Something else? We have excel for free, but I can't really find a free database. It has to be something most kids can use easily, so I don't end up doing all the typing! I figure first they'll type up something, then I'll have them type it in. We can link it to my webpage, too, so they can use it from home or the public library. Your thoughts? Thanks! -- Amy Lesemann, Reading Specialist and Director, Independent Learning Center St. Thomas the Apostle Elementary School _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] 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. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] 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.
