Teacher-Librarian

http://cmsreads.pbwiki.com

 Introduced the CMSreads wiki this week.  Only 1-3 students per class had even heard of wikis and that was only Wikipedia.  And then they didn’t know about the wiki part of wikipedia they just thought it was an online encyclopedia! 

 I asked how many had Myspace sites- about half of the class.  next question – Do you know that Myspace is a social network?  about half of the half….  These were all 7th graders.  Next week I’ll see what I get from the 8th.  I was happy I could introduce new techy thing to them-

Anyway, they liked the idea of the wiki as a place where we can all share things we love and don’t love about books and reading.  Students, of course, had lots of suggestions that I incorporated yesterday… I added a Page Turner for their list of favorites, Battle of the Books pages and Young Readers Choice separate from the genre reviews.

 It will be interesting to see how the Battle groups take to the wiki.  I’ve tried a blog with them before and it was hard to navigate back to comments about books.  So I hope the wiki format works a little better.. a lot better : )

I also upgraded to a paid service so I have separate administrator control, and paid yet even more to be able to get stats.  Afterall- it’s all about the data.

Thanks to Judy for sharing the Pacific MS Library Book Blog