Shelfari--Rebecca

[|www.shelfari.com/msrudy]

When you get to my Shelfari profile page, you will see a picture of me and my profile name, "Ms. Rudy". Below that are six tabs.


 * Click on the "Shelf" tab to check out the books I have added to my //personal// shelf so far.
 * Unfortunately, I can rate the books, but I cannot add my own personal summary for myself or others to view.
 * However, I can "tag" the books. If you scroll to the bottom of my shelf you will see the "tags" I have used so far. Click on a tag to see what books I have used that tag for.
 * To the left of the shelf you will also notice some "categories" you can click on that are other ways I have labeled/marked the books such as "Plans to Read" "Reading" "Read" "Favorites" "Owns".
 * You can also click on the book itself to see a description and summary of the book added by other Shelfari users. Unless someone changed it, I wrote the summary for "The House on Mango Street."


 * When you are tired of looking at my shelf, go back to my main profile page and click on the "Groups" tab.
 * There you will find a group I created called "Ms. Rudy's Class". Click on that link and it will take you to my group page.
 * My group has a shelf that I have added a couple of books to and for some reason these books are accompanied by a description if you drag your mouse over them.
 * Above the group shelf you will see a recent pretend discussion I started titled, "Esperanza Rising--How did Saturday School go?" Although I really did work with a class of kids that had to go to Saturday School for not reading, this discussion is just meant to be an example/experiment of how I would use this tool. Check out how I started my discussion!

I hope you enjoyed my media experiment. Let me know if you have any suggestions, questions, or comments.