Thursday, March 20, 2008

Litlovers

I have just finished going through an exercise of the Learning 2.1 program.
The program can be found at http://explorediscoverplay.blogspot.com/
The exercise was all about book clubs and the topics that are involved with running one. It even shows how to start one. You can find information at http://www.litlovers.com/
I had a look at how to disect what is written in a book, which was interesting.
The website discusses the different aspects that are involved with book clubs.
One of the links were LitClub. You can find information on bookclubs through any of the links below. It shows great ideas for book clubs! Here are a few ideas shown below or go to the litlovers site shown above and go through the course and explore, discover and play for yourself.
Reading guides can be found at http://www.litlovers.com/litguide.html
At this link there are book reviews, summaries, and discussion questions.
Most popular books can be found at http://www.litlovers.com/litclub.htm
The link shows the top book club choices that clubs are reading.
Books that are recommended can be found at http://www.litlovers.com/litpicks.htm
3 of LitLovers favorites are reviewed each month. How to discuss a book can be found at http://www.litlovers.com/discussion.htm. There are tips to help you with book club discussions. Questions for fiction can be found at http://www.litlovers.com/questions_f.htm. There are generic book questions for novels and memoirs. Questions for Non-Fiction have questions for nonfiction works. Follow the link at http://www.litlovers.com/questions_nf.htm to find questions that you may want to ask. Read, Think, Talk does exactly that. There is a chart that gives guidance on topics that you might like to think and talk about books. You can go to the link at http://www.litlovers.com/howtoread.htm. The menus and recipes link lets you click on to different parts of the world that you might like to discover recipes from. The recipes link can be found at http://www.litlovers.com/litfood.htm. The Fun Icebreakers links is just that. There are some suggestions on how to make fun at book clubs. Find these at http://www.litlovers.com/icebreakers.htm. There are games and activities to jumpstart your meetintgs. The link discussing how to start a book club can be found at http://www.litlovers.com/organize.htm. It has a step-by-step-guide for organising a book club. There is a link with information on how to run a book club at http://www.litlovers.com/structure.htm. There are tips to help structure meetings and select your books. There is even information to get young people hooked on books. This can be found at http://www.litlovers.com/litkids.htm

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