Thing 9: Online Books/Book Cataloguing (Week of July 26-30)
This "Thing" is more for fun and for personal use, but you may find that it has potential for classroom use as well. If you're a reader, it's always a good idea to keep a list of what you've read so you can make recommendations, look for books by the same author, and well, because sometimes it's just fun to make lists. Several online book cataloguing sites have popped up in recent years, each of which allow you to create your own "book shelf", tag books, find forums to join, get recommendations, and see what other people are reading. Three of the most popular are GoodReads, Shelfari and LibraryThing. For this Thing, you should visit each of these sites, take the tour or read the How It Works section, and choose one in which to create an account. Try adding 5-10 books, create tags for them, add them to the appropriate shelf, and anything else that strikes your fancy. I have an account on LibraryThing, username LisaWiebenga. Check me out! I also have added a gadget on the sidebar of this blog that shows random books from my LibraryThing (scroll down below the Blogroll).
Discovery Activity:
This "Thing" is more for fun and for personal use, but you may find that it has potential for classroom use as well. If you're a reader, it's always a good idea to keep a list of what you've read so you can make recommendations, look for books by the same author, and well, because sometimes it's just fun to make lists. Several online book cataloguing sites have popped up in recent years, each of which allow you to create your own "book shelf", tag books, find forums to join, get recommendations, and see what other people are reading. Three of the most popular are GoodReads, Shelfari and LibraryThing. For this Thing, you should visit each of these sites, take the tour or read the How It Works section, and choose one in which to create an account. Try adding 5-10 books, create tags for them, add them to the appropriate shelf, and anything else that strikes your fancy. I have an account on LibraryThing, username LisaWiebenga. Check me out! I also have added a gadget on the sidebar of this blog that shows random books from my LibraryThing (scroll down below the Blogroll).
Discovery Activity:
- Explore GoodReads, Shelfari, and LibraryThing
- Create an account in one of them
- Add 5-10 books
- Add tags to each book
- Add book to the appropriate bookshelf (if applicable)
- Post your username and which application you used
- Post about your experiences using the application. Would you use this? How and why? Could you see any way to use this in a school setting?
For fun (optional):
- Add a gadget to your blog displaying books from your account (each of the three applications has an option to get the code to embed onto your blog, website, etc.)
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