The
READING RAIDERS took a field trip to Barnes and Noble after school on April 13, 2011 (Wednesday).
Aaron,
fromB&N demonstrated some basic features of the e-readers for the members. He gave a great 30 minute overview on several different features available on the Nook. He entertained questions, during and after, his presentation. After all of their questions were answered, the Reading Raiders stopped by the Barnes and Noble cafe for a treat, then boarded the bus and returned to school; just in time to catch the 4:00 late bus home. All Reading Raiders present, had Nooks to use for the demonstration.
Most students have
checked out the e-readers and are reading one of the selections for the upcoming meeting. Since this month starts out with APRIL FOOL'S DAY, the genre for APRIL is HUMOR and/or SCHOOL DAYS.
The Westing Game by
Ellen Raskin and
Angus,
Thongs and Full-Frontal-Snogging by Louise Rennison are the APRIL SELECTIONS. Rennison's title is not currently available in e-reader format, but it is available in paperback from the BHS Library.
On Thursday, April 14th, Phyllis Coulter, a reporter from the
Panatagraph came to the District to speak to Mrs. Linn McDonald and her students at BJHS and to BHS to spe
ak to the Reading Raiders about using the Nooks in an educational setting. Mr.
Jim Peterson, Director of Technology of District87 is sponsoring this pilot program at the junior high and high school levels. He has provided direction, funding, support and enough leniency
that each of the library media specialists have designed programs that suit their student populations. For instance, BJHS checks out some of the Nooks to students through the Learning Center, and she checks out others to reading teachers to be used in classroom settings. At BHS, some of the Nooks are checked out to members of the Reading Raiders Book Club, some are used as incentive in a reading techniques class, and a couple are checked out through the library for by students who are heavy
users of the BHS fiction collection. Students expressed what they thought about using the Nooks. Molly Stevenson and Emily Schultz thought that textbooks should be offered on the Nooks. They are just a little ahead of the curve in their thinking. College textbooks are just starting to become available in the proper format for tablets/e-readers like the Nook.
VS
It may be another year or two before high school textbooks are available in this format. The girls have a good point about getting textbooks in electronic form.
The READING RAIDERS took a field trip to Barnes and Noble after school on April 13, 2011 (Wednesday).
Aaron, 
fromB&N demonstrated some basic features of the e-readers for the members. He gave a great 30 minute overview on several different features available on the Nook. He entertained questions, during and after, his presentation. After all of their questions were answered, the Reading Raiders stopped by the Barnes and Noble cafe for a treat, then boarded the bus and returned to school; just in time to catch the 4:00 late bus home. All Reading Raiders present, had Nooks to use for the demonstration. 
Most students have checked out the e-readers and are reading one of the selections for the upcoming meeting. Since this month starts out with APRIL FOOL'S DAY, the genre for APRIL is HUMOR and/or SCHOOL DAYS. The Westing Game by 
Ellen Raskin and Angus,
Thongs and Full-Frontal-Snogging by Louise Rennison are the APRIL SELECTIONS. Rennison's title is not currently available in e-reader format, but it is available in paperback from the BHS Library. 
On Thursday, April 14th, Phyllis Coulter, a reporter from the Panatagraph came to the District to speak to Mrs. Linn McDonald and her students at BJHS and to BHS to spe
ak to the Reading Raiders about using the Nooks in an educational setting. Mr. Jim Peterson, Director of Technology of District87 is sponsoring this pilot program at the junior high and high school levels. He has provided direction, funding, support and enough leniency
that each of the library media specialists have designed programs that suit their student populations. For instance, BJHS checks out some of the Nooks to students through the Learning Center, and she checks out others to reading teachers to be used in classroom settings. At BHS, some of the Nooks are checked out to members of the Reading Raiders Book Club, some are used as incentive in a reading techniques class, and a couple are checked out through the library for by students who are heavy 
users of the BHS fiction collection. Students expressed what they thought about using the Nooks. Molly Stevenson and Emily Schultz thought that textbooks should be offered on the Nooks. They are just a little ahead of the curve in their thinking. College textbooks are just starting to become available in the proper format for tablets/e-readers like the Nook. 
VS 
It may be another year or two before high school textbooks are available in this format. The girls have a good point about getting textbooks in electronic form.
