Reading

How are you promoting reading in your school using 21st Century methods? Back to Main Menu of 21st Century Library

(See ebook pathfinder.) || Discovery College - these are linked from our netvibes page. ||  ||   ||
 * ==**Competency**== || ==**Examples**== || ==**Ideas/ Barriers**== || ==Other Comments== ||
 * You consider new ways to promote reading.You are piloting/supplying learners with downloadable audio books such as Playaways, Kindles, iPads, Nooks. || Discovery College - we use Playaways and video as other ways to tell a story. Looking into ebooks, downloadable audio - not there yet. ||  ||   ||
 * You share ebook apps with students for their iPhones, droids,and iPads and other mobile devices. (Check out Gale’s AccessMyLibrary, School Edition) ||  ||   ||   ||
 * You market, and your students share, books using socialnetworking tools like Shelfari, [|Good] [|Reads], or [|LibraryThing]. || Discovery College :We use Goodreads as a tool for secondary students to record their reading and to see what others are reading. ||  ||   ||
 * Your students blog or tweet or network in some way about what they are reading ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Your desktop screensavers promote great reads,not Dell or Apple or HP. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * You link to available free ebook collections using such tools asGoogle Books, International Children’s Digital Library
 * You review and promote books in your own blogs and wikis and other websites. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * You embed ebooks on your websites to encourage reading and support learning ||  ||   ||   ||
 * You work together with learners to create and share digital booktalks or book trailers. ||  ||   ||   ||