books to blogs at owen middle school laurel hawkins cindy sturdivant amanda venturella loretta...
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Books to Blogsat Owen Middle School
Laurel HawkinsCindy SturdivantAmanda VenturellaLoretta Wilson
Our Inspiration
Fan sites like “The Leaky Cauldron” Social networking sites like Facebook Message boards used in most university
courses
Our Inspiration
Teen Read week Second Life at The Public Library of Charlotte Mecklenburg County
http://teen.secondlife.com/
Goals
Create a virtual reading community that engages parents, teachers, and students
Learn about authors and books
Discuss what they are reading
Anticipate “coming soon” titles
Suggest books for the media center to purchase
Compare movies and books
Participate in our school book club, even if they can’t attend
Suggest more authors for fan sites
Practice writing in a real-world setting
Goals
Goals
Teachers will:
Interact as a reader with students Link the wiki to their teacher webpagesMonitor trends in Young Adult literature
Goals
Parents will:
Participate in the life of our school in a meaningful wayOpen new, meaningful avenues of discussion by reading with their middle schoolerDevelop an appreciation for Young Adult literature
Resources
wikispaces audacity edublogs NCCAThttp://www.nccat.org/seminar_teacher_scholar.html
existing author websites
Implementation
Three teachers and our media coordinator spent five days at NCCAT. We created our wiki and added author sites.
http://omsbookspace.wikispaces.com/
Implementation
We adapted our wiki so that students may not modify content, but may participate in the discussion boards. This wiki also allows us to limit membership to our school community.
Implementation
Media coordinator procured permission from YA authors
Darren Shan (Cirque du Freak) replied:
that's fine.
Darren
Implementation
I would suggest this revision of your text:
Author of the best-selling Books of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau has created a fast-paced series where nothing is certain other than change. A movie based on the first novel in the series, The City of Ember, was released in October 2008. Fans will be able to compare written magic to movie magic and see which one wins. The newest installment in the series, The Diamond of Darkhold, was published in August 2008.
Thanks for including me in your site,Jeanne DuPrau
Implementation
Media coordinator introduced our wiki to students during library orientation.
Students were instructed to include their names and homeroom teacher in the request to join our wiki.
Implementation
Mrs. Venturella’s students created podcasts of book reviews to post on our wiki.
http://www.buncombe.k12.nc.us/9752073010216640/blank/browse.asp?a=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&c=70517&9752073010216640Nav=|&NodeID=1667
Implementation
Each teacher added an SSR page to our class blogs.
http mrsventurella.edublogs.org :///
http://hawk4math.edublogs.org/
Success!
•Students love the discussion pages on our wiki.•Our podcasts have had a lot of hits•Positive feedback and participation from parents•Participation from teachers in all content areas
Who knew?
•The kids are pretty lukewarm about our author pages.http://omsbookspace.wikispaces.com/message/view/Fan+Page+Yellowbook/5552260
•The on-demand writing test has minimized lab time.
Next steps
•Every staff member at our school will post a podcast•Students will collaborate to create author pages•Create a staff wiki sharing educational technology ideas
Next steps
•Extend the use of podcasts to all subjects
•Share our wiki with youwww.omsbookstoblogs.com