goodreads

Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/

This website allows members to keep track of what they have read, what they want to read, and what they are currently reading. Members can rate and review their readings and share recommendations with other members. Additionally, members can add other members to a list of friends and form book clubs or join discussion groups. Members start off having three bookshelves, but they add additional bookshelves like for example, children's literature.

This website would be a great tool to use in a school setting. Teachers and librarians from a school can form a group and share their reviews of book they have read. They can categorize books by subject or grade level. For instance, teachers can have a bookshelf for books to teach mathematical concepts or a bookshelf for books that teach reading skills such as cause and effect and main idea. The school librarian can manage the bookshelves and make a central network for the entire swchool to use.

Elsa Coronado-Salinas