by Kristin Ziemke
A number of years ago, I saw people tweeting about, “It’s Monday, what are you reading?” I quickly realized that transferring this question to my students was a perfect way to start the week. Over the years we answered this question in many formats as students blogged, tweeted and backchanneled about their reading lives nearly every Monday across the the school year.
As this practice endures, recently I’ve been using the website Padlet.com as a small group activity to for students to post what they are reading each Monday. Padlet is a digital bulletin board that invites student interaction by simply double clicking on the wall to leave a post. Each week students share a #BookSelfie of their “right now” book and tell a little bit about the title they are reading.