Finding+(and+Remembering!)+Great+Reads+and+Web+Sites

Wondering what your colleagues and friends are reading? Lost that scrap of paper with the web address your sister recommended when she visited during the holidays? Let social networking sites created for readers and researchers help. During today's session, you will have an opportunity to learn about and explore [|goodreads] and [|delicious], great web 2.0 tools that can help you to easily organize and retrieve lists of great books and web sites for your students. You'll create your own account with each of these services, and begin to build your own title and bookmark collections, and experiment with tags you may want to use to organize these resources.

This excellent site will allow you to rate books, write reviews, and maintain a record of books you've already read, keep track of those books you want to read, exchange book suggestions with family, friends and colleagues, join a virtual book discussion group (or form your own :-), answer challenging trivia questions, and more. You can even "place" books on virtual bookshelves organized by any tags (subjects) you wish to assign, from standards like "U.S. History" and Science Fiction, to others more elaborate, such as "Reality Bites", "Gods and Monsters" and "Teen Tearjerkers" (from [|Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists!] ).

"The biggest collection of bookmarks in the universe", Delicious allows you to save and share your bookmarks with others, see what colleagues and friends are bookmarking, and check out the bookmarks that are the most popular right now. Tagging (describing your bookmarks using any words you like) your bookmarks allows you to easily organize and retrieve them in a variety of ways - another great feature of this social bookmarking site.