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Book Reports for the 21st Century: Using Book Review Blogs as Real-life Teaching and Learning Tools
Margot Kinberg
National University

2. Book Reports for the 21st Century
What do we mean by book review blogs and how did they get that way?
Why use book review blogs in the classroom?
How can book review blogs be used in the classroom?
What things need to be considered when incorporating book review blogs into the curriculum?

3. What do we mean by book review blogs, and how did they get that way?
A book review blog is a weblog, or log, that details what the author has been reading and what her or his opinion of the book is.
Weblogs, or blogs, have been a part of the Internet since Book review blogs began to follow shortly thereafter.

6. That’s all just fine, but… why use book review blogs in the classroom?
‘Digital Natives’
Asynchronous
Interactive
Collaboration
Modeling

7. How can we use book review blogs in the classroom?
Reading and Responding to Other Book Reviews
Classroom Writing

8. Caveats and Considerations
Preparation and orientation to using blogs
Monitoring
Assessment

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