News from the Florida Department of Education:
The Literacy League book club is a new reading initiative designed to connect Florida’s middle school students with their favorite authors in modern and innovative ways. The club, open to all students in grades 6-8, creates a new kind of collaboration between students, reading and technology. Students will now have the opportunity to have their questions answered directly by the author of the selected book, redefining how students learn through the use of technology.
Four books will be selected throughout the year by the Florida Department of Education and students participating in the club will be asked to submit questions about the book either by e-mail or video submission. The questions will be answered by the author of the chosen book for a Literacy League podcast show, housed on Florida’s iTunes U site. The show will also air regularly on the Florida Knowledge Network.
Book Selection:
Award-winning author Julianna Baggott’s book “The Anybodies” is the first book chosen for the club.
The next book selection will be announced in April.
How to submit a question:
Upon completion of the book, please submit your questions in the following formats:
• E-mail questions to LiteracyLeague@fldoe.org
• Submit a recorded video question (WMV, Quick Time or MPEG files will be accepted), and either e-mail to the above address or mail a CD version to the Department of Education’s Communications Office at 325 W. Gaines Street, Suite 1524, Tallahassee FL, 32399-0400
• Mail your written questions to the above address
The deadline to submit your questions for this quarter’s book club broadcast is March 1, 2010.
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