Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Interesting sites

From Naomi Bates, these sites look interesting: www.bookmooch.com Have a book you no longer want? This website will take those books and sends you ones you do! Create a list, then you and others in this web 2.0 environment will help make those wish lists happen. It’s free*you can keep the books or pass them on (even to children’s hospitals, etc*) and even different countries! Leave and receive comments and feedback from fellow moochers. 65,000 members and growing*. It's a virtual bookswap the world's your oyster! www.booktagger.com Do you have people always asking you about good books you’ve read? How about the fact that you’ve read SO MANY you can’t keep up with all of them?!?! And sometimes students are the ones begging to get their hands on a recommendation from you NOW!! Well, there is a solution out there. Create a virtual bookshelf and start putting in books by cover and tagging them. Share with family, friends, co-workers, students* (I can see possibilities of uses in a reading program with this!) Use the widget that this website gives you to add to your blog, your wiki*anything that accepts them. Talk about pairing and sharing - if a titles not available for students, there are others tagged the same they might find interesting as well.