Edvibes Blog

It’s Free

1. Sign up for a free account at Goodreads - a social network for book lovers to find, meet, and link up with other readers to share, review, discover, and recommend books on your virtual book shelf. Check out my review at Goodreads - A Social Network for Book Lovers

2. Your invited to join the Educator Book Club group I set up at Goodreads specifically for students, teachers, parents, administrators, and professors to link up and share their favorite books.

3. Add me to your friends network I am “edvibesproducer. ”

So what are the most influential books you have read that have impacted you in education?

DESCRIPTION:
Goodreads is a social network for book lovers to find, meet, and link up with other readers to share, review, discover, and recommend books on your virtual book shelf. Their mission is “to improve the process of reading and learning throughout the world… Knowledge is power; and power is best shared among friends.”

TAGS & CATEGORIES:
folksonomy, social media, networking, books
It’s like a myspace for readers or Last.fm for books

SCREENSHOTS:

PROS:
*Quickly and easily browse or manually add, rate, and review books you have read, are reading, or want to read.
*Discover link-minded book lovers to find good books to read
*Has a book club group feature where you can meet and discuss with other readers.

CONS:
*None

COST/SET UP:
*free, just need to sign up for an account
*web-based no downloads required

EDUCATIONAL USEFULNESS:

I have started a group in this network called the Educator Book Club specifically for students, teachers, parents, administrators, and professors to link up and share their favorite books. Your invited to join in or add me to your friends network I am edvibesproducer.

“READ/WRITE SOCIAL WEB2.0″-NESS

OVERALL GRADE:
A+

LINK:
http://www.goodreads.com/

DESCRIPTION:
This site is a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us with voting features like digg for educators - K-12 Teachers, Administrators, Professors, Grad Students, and Librarians - sponsored by a Harvard grant and using the open-source project Scuttle,

WEBSITE:
http://edtags.org

TAGS & CATEGORIES:
bookmarking, tagging, folksonomy, social media, education, networking

SCREENSHOTS:

PROS:
*It’s a social bookmarking specifically for educators to network and colloborate
*Has all major del.icio.us features plus digg voting!
*You can import/export bookmarks from your favorites or del.icio.us
*Has RSS subscriptions, so others can subscribe to your links and research.
*Can upload documents and videos

CONS:
*Still very new, not a lot of users yet.

COST/SET UP:
*free, just need to sign up for an account
*web-based no downloads required
*Has a bookmarklet you can drag to your browser toolbar for a button to add links to your account quickly and easily

EDUCATIONAL USEFULNESS:

“READ/WRITE SOCIAL WEB2.0″-NESS

OVERALL GRADE:
B+
Still to early