Goodreads

Module developed by Joseph Jeffery

What is Goodreads?

Goodreads is a social network for book lovers. Designed to help book lovers find and recommend to peers, track their books and discuss their reading with friends online.

Goodreads...

...lets you share your passion for reading with students
...lets students share their reading habits with each other
...allows for private discussions
...lets students post reviews that authors can see
...lets students ask questions and interact with authors

Why use it?

Where does it fit?

Goodreads, as a book curation tool, fits very squarely into the humanities side of education. By encouraging students to share their reading and interact with each other around books it creates a culture that stimulates book discussion similar to book blogging, but with the possibility of a larger audience through the Goodreads platform including the authors of the books they are reading.

Create an account signing up with an email address or with a Facebook account depending on how you want to link your account. For educational purposes it is advised not to connect your Facebook account so try to use an email.

How do I start?

Screencasts

Setting up an account

This screencast shows how to go about setting up a Goodreads account and goes through the steps of venturing out into the world of book based social media.

An overview of Goodreads

This screencast shows some of the features Goodreads has and talks about them from a personal level.

Creating and using groups

This screencast looks at the most popular use of Goodreads for educational purposes - the private group and talks about how to set one up and how it can be used.

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Additional information?

Where next?

Goodreads is unique as a social media platform, because it is so targeted on reading and books there is no other major comparison. There are places user generated reviews can be posted such as on Common Sense Media, but none that take it in a social network direction.

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