This unit was not as enlighting for me as some of the other tasks during this class. The school library has purchased ebooks for our collection. The main problem I have with ebooks seems to be that ebooks need to be bought initially and then there is a yearly fee to be able to continue using ebooks. Trail Ridge has tried to get the students to use the ebooks, however they have not been very enthustiast. Students prefer to GOOGLE search options.
Trail Ridge, in addition to ebooks, has purchased a small number of audiobooks for checkout, it is required that the hard copy title is also check out at the same time. Some kids have caught the audiobook fever. Yesterday a good reader wanted to check out the audiobook of "Hoot". Today, she returned the audiobook to the library. She stated that her mom would not let her use the audio because it was cheating.
When looking throught the course links for this lesson, I preferred the "Google Project" and "Gutenber Project Top 100". These sites had the book cover nice and big; the displaying of the book was very appealing. I also liked that I was able to read the book on line or at least have a chapter to read. This allows me to see if this book is interesting to me. Booksites.org. The use of these websites would be useful for helping students find out if this book is an interesting read. I also like that it is genre listed. I have many students that continue to want to read within a specific genre.
I must admit, for me, that ebooks and audiobooks will never be replace my love for holding a book in my hands and getting lost in a storyline.
3 comments:
Luann, I think you are correct some people think audio books are "helpers" and others think that this is the only way to "read" a book because they can listen to it in odd places and they can multi task will reading. I can't listen to a book I get to distracted and am fearful I will miss what they said and have to rewind.
I love this picture!! It would make a great "just read" poster!!
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