· Every day in the library students are using the net to meet their reading needs not just in curricula. When students self-generate their personal research projects they often pick these groups as their research subject.
o Cricket Guys: we have a group of students who come in everyday, plant themselves at a computer and check the world cricket matches and research individual players.
o Astrology: lots of students look up horoscopes and dream interpretation sites for fun
o Manga Online: I have a group of ESL 1 students who go online afterschool everyday and read online Manga.
o Wikipedia warriors: (that’s their name). Students who love to check wikipedia to see if they have updated information especially on their favorite sports, cinema and music artists.
o Underground music and hard metal sites: Very popular with students. They look at concert dates and new CD information while listening to released music.
o Sheet music: many students in the instrumental program come in and search for new pieces of music (classical and modern) to add to their repertoire. Because I’m a former music teacher, I often work with them to find pieces for scholarship and classroom recitals.
Teens are spending much of their day reading, with technology serving as a conduit—blogs, gaming manuals, podcast notes, MySpace and Facebook biographies, iTunes reviews, text messages and IM, teen magazine articles, and specific interest websites. Most of this non-traditional, technology-conducted reading is interest-driven and serves to provide teens with necessary information, communication, and Information and Communication Technologies skills development. However, if librarians continue to promote library use and reading through traditional means, the response is overwhelmingly negative. Librarians must be flexible and experimental when in comes to trusting and reflecting upon the teen library user. To keep teens, librarians, libraries, and reading connected, librarians could:
· promote audiobooks for use on iPods using podcasts
· recommend “favorite” educational websites and other reading
·maintain Facebook sites
· provide collaborative student wikis
· host gaming clubs
· create IM reference service
· distribute text-message surveys
· provide genre-specific book clubs
· encourage aid from student volunteers
· train students to maintain individual iGoogle homepages, and
· encourage blogging teachers
Technology is a tool that can be harnessed to make reading more effective and more efficient.
--Janine Weston, LIBR 233
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lspear@ghchs.com said
at 11:44 am on Aug 5, 2008
Non-Traditional Media
· Every day in the library students are using the net to meet their reading needs not just in curricula. When students self-generate their personal research projects they often pick these groups as their research subject.
o Cricket Guys: we have a group of students who come in everyday, plant themselves at a computer and check the world cricket matches and research individual players.
o Astrology: lots of students look up horoscopes and dream interpretation sites for fun
o Manga Online: I have a group of ESL 1 students who go online afterschool everyday and read online Manga.
o Wikipedia warriors: (that’s their name). Students who love to check wikipedia to see if they have updated information especially on their favorite sports, cinema and music artists.
o Underground music and hard metal sites: Very popular with students. They look at concert dates and new CD information while listening to released music.
o Sheet music: many students in the instrumental program come in and search for new pieces of music (classical and modern) to add to their repertoire. Because I’m a former music teacher, I often work with them to find pieces for scholarship and classroom recitals.
Janine Weston said
at 5:45 pm on Jul 7, 2008
Teens are spending much of their day reading, with technology serving as a conduit—blogs, gaming manuals, podcast notes, MySpace and Facebook biographies, iTunes reviews, text messages and IM, teen magazine articles, and specific interest websites. Most of this non-traditional, technology-conducted reading is interest-driven and serves to provide teens with necessary information, communication, and Information and Communication Technologies skills development. However, if librarians continue to promote library use and reading through traditional means, the response is overwhelmingly negative. Librarians must be flexible and experimental when in comes to trusting and reflecting upon the teen library user. To keep teens, librarians, libraries, and reading connected, librarians could:
· promote audiobooks for use on iPods using podcasts
· recommend “favorite” educational websites and other reading
·maintain Facebook sites
· provide collaborative student wikis
· host gaming clubs
· create IM reference service
· distribute text-message surveys
· provide genre-specific book clubs
· encourage aid from student volunteers
· train students to maintain individual iGoogle homepages, and
· encourage blogging teachers
Technology is a tool that can be harnessed to make reading more effective and more efficient.
--Janine Weston, LIBR 233
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