learning all i can

Well as an organizational junkie (or if you look at my life, maybe an organizational wannabe) this Library Thing looks great to me. I could not resist joining even though I swore I wasn’t going to sign up for one more thing, but this was very quick and easy. And I thoroughly enjoyed perusing the site. When I’m on Amazon I always check out the “customers who bought this item also bought…” and this is like that times 100. I cataloged a few of my books but it would take me a while to do all of them, but that could be a summer project maybe…

This would be a great way to organize a reading library, lending library, etc. for personal use, but I can see many uses for here at school as well. Reading and English classes would benefit for sure as would any discipline really. I might come up with a “suggested reading list” for my World Cultures course as many of those 7th grade Honors students are voracious readers and would probably love this. I could post age-appropriate historical fiction and they could read and chat about them. My one fear is that some of the group chats could pose a problem as the students would be exposed to strangers, but that could be true on so many of the sites many of these students already visit. This is definitely something to be explored further.  What our history department could really benefit from would be a “Video/dvd Thing” type of site as we could then catalog much easier all that we have available.  Perhaps that is coming up in another “Thing.”  One can always hope…