Reading 2.0

Although there wasn't nearly enough time to explore this area properly, if you follow up and read / explore / share these resources linked below it might sow some seeds in terms of inspiring new ways to promote reading...

"If we believe in the value and power of books, stories, poems and plays, we also have to remember that it will never be enough simply to publish good stuff. We have to be committed, ingenious, flexible and experimental in coming up with ways of making all that literature come alive for every single child - no exceptions allowed.”

Michael Rosen, Last Laureate Log 11

http://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/foradults_news.html

Think about combining / integrating technology thoughtfully to promote the love of reading… eg using blogs, LibraryThing, texts and tweets, interactive booktalks, book trailers, voicethread, photostory, book related screensavers, audio books, e-books…

One idea from the Reading 2.0 wiki below is "low tech labels" - labels added to books with web information for interested readers to explore themselves, eg

E. Lockhart
If you like E. Lockhart, you’ll like these:
Webpage: http://www.theboyfriendlist.com/
Myspace:http://www.myspace.com/theboyfriendlist
Blog: http://www.theboyfriendlist.com/e_lockhart_blog/
Teen Lit (MySpace): http://groups.myspace.com/teenlit
Readergirlz: http://www.readergirlz.com/ or http://www.myspace.com/readergirlz
Not Your Mother’s Book Club: http://www.myspace.com/notyourmothers

or

Stephenie Meyer
Want more Bella? More Edward? There’s tons more on the web! Check these out:
Webpage: http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/
Playlist: http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/twilight_playlist.html
Twilight Lexicon (all things Twilight): http://twilightlexicon.com/
Myspace groups: http://groups.myspace.com/stephmeyer or http://groups.myspace.com/booktwilight
Teen Lit (MySpace): http://groups.myspace.com/teenlit
Readergirlz: http://www.readergirlz.com/ or http://www.myspace.com/readergirlz
Not Your Mother’s Book Club: http://www.myspace.com/notyourmothers

In Term 4, consider ways you can encourage students - and teachers - to read during the summer holidays, possibly using a web 2.0 tool to keep connected with the library and other readers, extend and share their reading…

• Reading 2.0 : Getting the gears to work in harmony by Joyce Valenza http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/pdf/reading20.pdf (2008)

• Reading 2.0 wiki – Anita Beaman and Amy Oberts
  http://readingtech.wikispaces.com/
  In the past, the book and the computer might have been in competition with one another...that's a "Reading 1.0" mindset.
  The technological tools posted in this wiki, however, promote reading without diminishing the importance or value of written text.
  Harnessing technology to excite and empower your students' literary development is our mission for Reading 2.0!

• Technology training wheels : What is Reading 2.0? http://technologytrainingwheels.pbworks.com/Reading-2-Point-0

• School Librarian’s role in reading
  http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslissues/positionstatements/roleinreading.cfm
  ALA Toolkit
  http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslissues/toolkits/slroleinreading.cfm
  

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• Promoting reading using this 2.0 stuff by Stephen Abram
  http://stephenslighthouse.com/files/MMIS_26.pdf
  
  “Reading is a social activity. There I said it. I know a lot of people see it as solitary, introverted, internalized, quiet, and even as anti-social! And frankly it isn’t...”
  
  “Since we really care about books (and reading), can we use the new tools on the web to put our services on steroids? Why 2.0? Well, because it offers the first real opportunity to use technology to go beyond search, storage and retrieval and actually engage with readers in a scalable way beyond our walls and beyond physical book formats.”