Amanda Pape's List: Articles and Tutorials on Using LibraryThing in Educational Settings

This is more or less a summary of Roberta Sibley's article, "The Librarian Who Loves LibraryThing" from the April 2009 issue of School Library Media Activities Monthly, on how she used LibraryThing to support a high school course:

"We have a senior elective in our school entitled 'Reading in Literature.' Students develop a personal reading plan, do booktalks, participate in literature circles, keep a log of responses to teacher-prompted questions, and review the books they read. It was the perfect place to try out LibraryThing with students. Teachers can go paperless and keep track of student reading logs, journals, and reviews online. They can also respond to students individually, and those responses can be private communications between teacher and student."

(One word of caution: according to the site's Terms of Use, children under the age of 13 are prohibited from using LibraryThing. This limits its K-12 use to high school students.)

A tutorial based on Roberta Sibley's article "The Librarian Who Loves LibraryThing."

A school librarian blogger exploring web 2.0 tools has some ideas of how LibraryThing can be used in a school setting.

From a presentation by Dale Brown at the 2008 JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching) Conference entitled "Using Librarything.com to promote extensive reading."

Brown demonstrated how his students used LibraryThing "to record, rate, and review the books they read, and also view each other's ratings and reviews. The website gives teachers a quick and simple means to monitor students, as our institutions demand, thus making it possible to allow students to read freely and independently, while at the same time helping to create a sense of a reading community among the students."