1. Starting Your Own Online Book Club: Book Reviews 2.0 Cheryl Wolf, LMS, McKinley Library, PS 63 & The Neighborhood School Alisa Epstein, LMS

2. Objective Dynamic online environment Motivate kids to read Learn to write book reviews Use technology Have fun!

3. Follett Destiny Book Reviews Easy to use for elementary school students Safe online environment Share with whole school community Integrate library catalog search skills Teach critical thinking

4. Book Review Content Grades 2 to 5 Casual peer to peer recommendations Encourage uninhibited writing Teach components of brief book review o Why do you like this book o Who would like to read it

5. Writing a Book Review on the Library Catalog: A Tutorial The following is a screencast video of the process of posting a book review to Destiny.

6. Destiny Book Review

7. Goodreads vs Shelfari Pros and cons Goodreads not blocked by DOE filter Goodreads offered more privacy features But Goodreads site policy states users must me 13 or older Shelfari interface is more graphically interesting and less confusing for elementary students Shelfari easy to write a review and star books from 1 to 5

8. Goodreads

9. Internet Safety I Keep Safe Internet Safety Coalition Internet Safety Video Never give personal information to someone you meet online People may not be who they say they are online Never arrange to meet anyone you have met online in person Internet use permission slips Distribute an internet use survey to assess students exposure to the web

10. Online Identities Avatars - Safe, anonymous, fun!!! http://www.tektek.org/dr eam/ Student self portraits

11. Book Reviews Show example of student book reviews at www.spaghettibookclub.org www.spaghettibookclub.org

12. Name_________________Title_____________________ _ Author_________________________________________ _ So You Want to Write a Book Review?

13. Finally… 5-402 Book Club Shelfari

14. Process Unblock Shelfari Create gmail accounts for students Online identities Create Shelfari account for each student

15. Setting up a Group on Shelfari

16. Control Group and Privacy Settings

17. Invite Students to Join the Book Club Use unique gmail addresses to assure safety

18. Adding a Book to a Group

19. And one last thought Lily’s Book Review @ VoiceThreadVoiceThread

20. You can do it too! Questions?