goodreads.com

I recently joined an online community called goodreads.com, where you can post books (and reviews, recommendations to friends, students or colleagues) you are currently reading or have already read.

As soon as you sign up goodreads.com prompts you to invite friends it searches your address book in your email. It then lets you know all the people you know who are already members of the online community and then recommends friends, students or colleagues you might want to invite to join the online community of readers.

Once you have connected with goodreads.com you will be alerted through your email whenever one of your friends has posted a review or recommendation of a book.

goodreads.com is an especially relevant online community for me to have joined this semester as I am student teaching in an Accelerated Reading class, where our goal is to motivate and encourage students to become avid readers. In doing so, we are confident that our students will raise their reading comprehension and fluency levels.