social reading presentation for libguide
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What is Social
Reading?
WhySocial Read?
• You can share ideas or read others ideas with out committing to a book club
• You can join a virtual book club without meeting in person.
• You can read reviews of books before buying or reading.
Who Is Social Reading?
College students ( Using it already
in your Online Course
Resource)
Young students. As Ipad programs are becoming popular
in schools
Anyone!
The Virtual Book Shelf
(bare minimum social reading!)
Use Facebook or Twitter to
share what you are reading!
The Virtual Book Shelf
Good Reads is one social reading website that allows you to have a
bookshelf of books you read, you are interested
in reading and/or currently reading
The Virtual Book Shelf
Shelfari is the same concept as Good Reads except the website literally keeps a virtual
book shelf for you!
Book clubs
Another part of social reading is participating in
online books clubs. This twitter account is one of the most popular book clubs
on twitter
Book clubs
If you are looking for a more traditional
book club you should try good reads. You can join public books
clubs or create private ones.
Book clubs
Is face to face book clubs important to you but you cant meet in
person? Consider setting up a Google+ hangout where you can video chat with
your book club.
Unique Social
ReadingPlatfor
ms
Booklamp provides readers with the “DNA” of a book and allows users to create reading lists. The social aspect of this is platform is
you can email the list to your friends and/or share it through
social media.
This platform allows you to share books, create groups and share comment right within the text itself. Instead of waiting to the end of the month to share your
thoughts with the books club you can share as you read.
One stop shop ! You can purchase the book through this
platform and have social reading experiences. Also puts a
“community Value” on books based on members feedback.
Sharing/Reading reviewsIf book clubs are not for you,
you might consider sharing your review of a book or reading
others reviews before picking a new book to read. This is also
considered social reading. Good Reads & Shelfari allows users to
create reviews.
Ereaders &Social
ReadingThe kobo app & ereader takes a different approach to the social reading experience. As a reader reads each page they will see a “pulse” and the pulse indicates
how much that page is being talked about by other readers.
Ereaders &Social
ReadingEreaders are also making social
reading easy by providing readers ways to share their
reading experience right from the ereader. Kindle’s feature is
called Public Notes & Highlights.
Social Reading
Apps
Similar to the concept of Google Plus in this app you can create reading circles and share what books you
are reading with your friends.
Social Reading
Apps
Allows you to highlight text and upload
sections to your social media account.
Is Social ReadingA Fad or Way of
the Future?
“Invades your privacy.”“People don’t care what
you are reading.”-Blogger
“it's in its Wild West days, mapping out boundaries,
players staking out sometimes overlapping
territory.”-LA Times
Are you in the
Cloud?10 things you need to know about using the
cloud!
Programs are only 10 minutes!
Do you have multiple devices? Do you wish you could access your
data from anywhere? Are you worried about losing your pictures, documents or ebooks? Well saving
your data on the cloud is the answer. This program will explain the
benefits of being on the cloud.
When: Spring Quarter 2013!
Location: Library