About+Us

This wiki was created by the Librarians at Sunnydale High School (Kate Fais, Michael Gutleber, Michelle Raczkowski) for the extracurricular book club: **//The Readers Among Us.//** This project was created with the intention of encouraging recreational reading in the upper grades. With the hectic lifestyle of 21st century teens, an online, interactive book club will serve this purpose. We need to meet them where they are: in cyberspace. The book club members will be able to listen to book talks, listen to or read discussion questions, read and write book reviews, recommend books, and read recommendations by fellow members. The wiki also provides genre descriptions, information about the Printz, Newbery, Coretta Scott King and National Book Awards, and booklists published by YALSA. The books to be read will be selected by the Librarians, but members will vote on the books' genre.

The technology elements used in this project include a wiki for its platform. Podcasts were created by Michael for book talks and by Michelle for discussion questions in an effort to make them more appealing to members. Each book has its own page with a cover image of the book. A poll created by Kate is used to determine the genre of the next book to be read. A custom search engine of trusted sources for locating book reviews was created by Kate. Color selection was also done by Kate. The pages "Genres", "Holes", "Princess Diaries", and "Son of the Mob" were created by Kate. The "Genres" page's book review discussion tabs were created by Michael. The page "Face on the Milk Carton" was created by Michael. The pages "Book Awards" and "Corner of the Universe" were created by Michelle. The pages "Home" and "About Us" were co-created by Michael and Michelle. Changes to permissions and navigation were made by Michael.