I'm excited to report that I am now a member of Mayor Daley's citywide book club at school. The book club is offered to all of the secondary Chicago Public Schools. Our school partners with the charter school that sits next to ours on the DuSable campus. We will begin meeting in the library once a month on Friday afternoons. The students voted to select the seven books we will read throughout the year and our first book is Sharon Draper's Just Another Hero.
Last Wednesday I was able to help our librarian set up a webinar in the library featuring Sharon Draper in a Q and A session with the students of the citywide book club. The members met at ten o'clock, at our various school locations, and typed in questions (instant messenger style) as Sharon answered student questions through live video streaming. I thought it was a powerful way to connect students and get them excited to read her book. Incorporating different types of technology into lessons and after school activities is really exciting and fun for me. I am hoping to be able to incorporate different strategies to access information on the web and cultivate different technological skills in each unit that I teach. It's not only fun but essential for today's students. I could tell that the students enjoyed seeing their question posted on the web wall and watching her respond specifically to the questions they had submitted.
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