Get Caught
in the BookNet!
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Aim
To help
reinforce the ‘reading culture’ by
using new Internet technology to encourage
children in both primary and secondary schools to
explore, respond to and share their reading
experiences.
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How?
The project has two main
strands:
- training in the use of the
Internet and new multimedia technology for
teaching and library staff ;
- the development of a
cross-counties web site , through
which pupils creatively explore common
reading experiences.
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Most importantly, it
will help ensure that new multimedia technology
is used to enhance not undermine the reading
experience and to demonstrate that IT can be
harnessed to serve traditional cultural
activities in new and unexpected ways.
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Who?
Because this is a pilot project, we are
working with a small group of school that already have
Internet access or whose intention is soon to go on line.
Our partners in the proejcts are library staff and
English Departments in secondary schools and IT and
reading co-ordinators in primary schools.
The Web Site
HyperAction will develop the Book Net
web site in collaboration with participating schools.
We will move from school to school so that all
participants can contribute equally to this common
curriculum resource.The web-site will be designed and
built with pupils and staff on school sites. The
web site will make use of material produced by pupils
during a range of reading response activities set up and
run by HyperAction. The site will be structured to allow
pupils to share their reading experiences in creative
ways
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- the Top Ten Best
Books, updated weekly by nomination and vote,
with a link to pupil reviews;
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- reader surveys,
conducted in individual schools and then collated
using the Internet;
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- mentoring of
younger pupils by older students
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- a section devoted
to collaborative story telling, which schools
take in turns to develop each week;
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- new reading
recommendations from individual schools, pupils,
or library staff;
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- interviews with
star authors conducted by e-mail;
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- a bulletin board
so that pupils can request information or
exchange opinions in an open discussion forum;
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- special feature
pages which might include theme pages - Point
Horror, fiction prize nominees, novels about
animals or pages devoted to favourite characters;
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Ultimately it is hoped that schools will
take turns to have editorial control of the web site thus
giving experience of web authoring to the widest possible
number.
In-school workshop sessions will benefit staff, who will
receive training on an individual basis, solving problems
and developing ideas that are specific to their school
situations, in a practical hands-on way.
All pupils will be able to access the site through their
own school libraries. They will be able to read
others’ advice and opinions when making fiction
choices. This will help motivate children to read and
think about their reading experiences, increasing their
level of interaction with the reading material and with
other readers.
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