BLOGGING ‘BOUT BOOKS

Blogging

Lynn Smith – LIS5313 – Fall 2009

Blog

Book Review – evaluation of a book Information Literacy – find,

evaluate and use information to solve a problem

Web 2.0 – 2nd generation of the World Wide Web -----

- Shortened version of Weblog

Technology

Question heard throughout the library?

“Is this a good book?”

“Is this a good book?”The question heard most

by library/media center

specialist in elementary schools.

Combining

Elementary Students K-5 +

Book Reviews + Web 2.0=Bloggin

g ‘bout Books

Creating a blog for book reviews

Teacher’s First Choose the blog

software Register for an account Name your blog Start blogging

Who may read the blog?

Who may see the comments?

Who may register?

Who may

post? Who may see the author name?

Writing a BOOK REVIEW

Read the book. Make sure to fill in the title and the author.

What makes the book good or bad?

Do you recommend the book - or not?

Information Literacy and Blogging

Elementary Students will learn to:

Find: the blog or a book Evaluate: the review

or the book Use the information –

“This is a good book!”

Blogging and the Learning Styles

All students have ONE primary learning style. Blogging stimulates 3 of the primary learning styles:

Kinesthetic (touching) Visual (seeing) Auditory (hearing)

Free Educator Resources for Blogging

Blogger at https://www.blogger.com/ Class Blogmeister at

http://www.classblogmeister.com/ Edublogs at http://edublogs.org/ Gaggle at

https://www.gaggle.net/gen?_template=/templates/gaggle/html/index.jsp

Not Free: Mac users can use iWeb, part of iLife at

http://www.apple.com/ilife/iweb/

Publically shared media center blogs

Archipelago at http://archipelagoblog.blogspot.com/

LibraryBites at http://www.librarybytes.com/

The Unquite Librarian at http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/

Is this a good book?

Blogging is FUN!!!!!

Blogging about book reviews

is more FUN!!!!!!!!!Answering “Is this a good book?” – MOST FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Credits

Images: Atlas , its time for your bath at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/440672445/ by flickr user woodleywonderworks at http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/

How I Became a Pirate screen capture from Barnes and Noble at http://search.barnesandnoble.com/How-I-Became-a-Pirate/Melinda-Long/e/9780152018481/?itm=1&USRI=how+i+became+a+pirate

Web 2.0 logo deadpool at http://www.flickr.com/photos/30465871@N05/3434587927/

by flickr user c__ at http://www.flickr.com/photos/30465871@N05/ Other Images from Microsoft Powerpoint ClipArt

Music Remember the Name (Run Beat Remix) (Instrumental Version) by ccMixter

user Jay Sinkie at http://ccmixter.org/files/JeremiahSinkie/4887

References

book review. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved November 21, 2009, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/book review

Grassian, E.S. & Kaplowitz, J.R. (2009). Information literacy instruction: Theory and practice (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.

weblog. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved November 19, 2009, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/weblog

web 2.0. (n.d.). Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon. Retrieved December 04, 2009, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/web 2.0

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