January 29, 2008
Book Glutton might be my new favorite website (via Classical Bookworm). Here’s a demonstration:
I can see all kinds of exciting potential for literature studies. Literature circles would be great on Book Glutton! I love the proximity chat and annotation features. Caveats: the site is still in beta, and according to Sylvia (Classical Bookworm), only works in Firefox (though I admit I didn’t test the site in other browsers, nor could I find information on the site that states the site doesn’t work in other browsers — still, I thought it prudent to pass the warning along).
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January 29, 2008
Yesterday I spent the day observing in the classes and then in meetings with the teachers. I can tell it is going to be an interesting blogging project. Both teachers are going to be great to work with and I really enjoyed meeting and talking to the students.
Both teachers are brand new to blogging so they will be learning as we go. We probably will use blogmeister in the biology class and typepad in the other class. Both teachers want some control over the process and after a lot of discussion we decided to try these two programs. In one class none of the students had blogs or knew very much about them. Not so in the other - several students in this class had blogs on My Space. I think one might have had one on Live Journal. Kind of two extremes - interesting.
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