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Wonderful ideas to use to extend a book, story or novel. Could be adapted for classroom use or use in a library book club. 

McLuhan predicted we'd have to leave the bookworld behind to be "with it" in the electronic world but with social media we can do it all. Learn about an evolving virtual book club model, online or inworld, that culminates with the screening of collaboratively produced bookcasts, multimedia aesthetic responses to books.

Great flowchart/Infographic Flowchart: Which Books to Read this Summer? Teaching students at the University of California School of Education developed this great infographic to help younger students pick books to read over the summer, an important time when young people have the freedom to read what they want to read rather than required coursework. This chart appeared on the "Teach: Make a Difference" blog on June 5, 2012. A chart like this would be a fun and challenging project for a team of teams or a book club.

Best Children Books can be the mixture of knowledge. These books are the most powerful and helpful to motivate a child. From The best Children's books your child can learn and read.

Interesting idea having all uni students, staff and feeder year 12 students reading same book. Certainly in my small village a book club which maybe 1/3 population belonged to certainly gave us a conversation starter in the shop.

List of 137 YA titles recommended for book clubs.

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This article is part of a series from the International Reading Association Technology in Literacy Education Special Interest Group (TILE-SIG).