Pi Patel and his amazing journey will be the first story to emerge from my students' Nooks. I distributed the readers last Friday (we meet every other day for 90 minutes) just to give them a chance to explore on their own without having a reading assignment. Even though they all knew theirs would be the "Nook class," they still excitedly checked out their Nooks from the school library as if I, their teacher, were secretly letting them get away with something.
Before I forget, I do want to mention that as a part of this pilot, I created a set of surveys as one way to measure the Nook's effectiveness in a literature class. I administered the survey to all of my sections today. I will administer the surveys at the end of the semester as well.
We actually didn't use the Nooks much in class today. Students had been researching in preparation for their presentations, and today they presented. Since we did have the first reading assignment (Chapters 1-15 in case you're wondering), I managed to reserve 15 minutes for a brief how-to. Having check out a document camera from our library, I projected to the Smart Board a few Nook basics: moving around in an e-book, looking up words, highlighting, annotating, etc.
They want to spend the entire next class reading.
We'll see.
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