Online Literature Circles
Thom Garrard, teacher librarian
Discovery Elementary
Mukilteo School District, WA
Literature Circle Discussion Webboard
Visit our project. You’ll have read only access to all of the
discussions. Begin by selecting
“Literature Circle Discussion Webboard” from the menu at http://schools.mukilteo.wednet.edu/di/library/stdntprj.htm .
Culture Clash: Two Sides to
Every Story, CA
http://pvs.gousd.k12.ca.us/culture.html
Community Builders Project,
Wartburg College, IA
Online Literature Circles and
Web-Based Mentoring, Blaine, WA
session
summary from NECC 2002
Literature Circles Resource
Center
http://fac-staff.seattleu.edu/kschlnoe/LitCircles/
Introduction to Literature
Circles
http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/mla/read.html#respond.
Discussion Groups and
Literature Circles
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/english/elg_lit_circles.htm
Literature circle strategies
http://toread.com/strategies.html
Education World article
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr259.shtml
Book discussions with authors
WebBoard software
Our host uses WebBoard from
Akiva. http://www.akiva.com/index.cfm. The standard edition costs $2995.
Threaded
discussions
Internet Classroom
Assistant (http://www.nicenet.org). Nicenet provides
the ICA free of charge with no advertising for academic projects. The ICA,
which includes web-based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing,
scheduling and link/resource, runs on Nicenet's server and works with any web
browser.
Blackboard (http://www.blackboard.net). This website may be accessed by educators at
no cost. However, courses are only
hosted for 60 days and you get no tech support. For longer periods and tech support, you can pay to register a
course.
E-mail accounts for
students (monitored,
filtered)
Epals.com (http://www.epals.com) offers free email
accounts for students. Parent
permission is required if those under 13.
You can set a filter level and monitor all incoming and outgoing
mail. Private chats and some discussion
boards are also available.