The site that you shared is just what I was looking for to use with my fifth
graders. Did you set one up for your class and have everyone put their entries
under your name or did you set up an account for each student and have them as
part of your group? I'm thinking I'd have more control if
Can you tell me what this app is called? It sounds great!
Carrie Davis
Fifth Grade Teacher
Buford Academy
Building Community;
Serving Students
From:
Its actually called Library Thing.
Ellen Stein
Reading Resource Teacher
Riverview Elementary School
410-887-1428
est...@bcps.org
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I have been using the library thing for about a year now and love it. I was
looking for an inexpensive way to catalogue my classroom books. I was
becoming very discouraged losing books since I buy them with my own money.
Now at least I know what I have. I still haven't gotten them all
I would go with Excel since you can teach the kids how to search for items,
sort by a variety of categories (genre, author, stars in a review, etc).
Post it to google docs so kids can access it from home and add more
information. All the kids would need a gmail account, but I think it could
Why not simply use a web page (html or xhtml)? It would be easy to create
and maintain. And it would be easy to access: The students could access it
from anywhere that had a web connection -- your classroom, the library,
their homes, etc. You could have a main page that simply listed the
How about creating a Shelfari site http://www.shelfari.com/ for your class?
This would allow it to be constantly changing and accessible from anywhere
that has internet.
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Amy Lesemann amy.lesem...@gmail.comwrote:
Hello - I need some advice. My students have been
Can someone explain Google docs?
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Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 5:17 PM
To: Mosaic: A Reading
Another site for classroom libraries is referenced in this nice Creating a
Classroom article on Reading Rockets:
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/29298
The article references the online service at:
http://www.librarything.com/
I have not used this resource, but recalled some conversations
Hello - I need some advice. My students have been writing short book
reviews/summaries of the books they read and we're keeping them in a big
notebook. But that's unwieldy and not very useful. So I want to go
electronic, and have them write them (or the older kids will type them up)
in a database
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