{"id":936,"date":"2020-05-18T10:37:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T17:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=936"},"modified":"2020-05-18T10:37:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T17:37:53","slug":"booksource-classroom-organizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/18\/booksource-classroom-organizer\/","title":{"rendered":"booksource: classroom organizer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original post by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/virtual.educ.ubc.ca\/wp\/etec523\/2019\/09\/10\/booksource-classroom-organizer\/\">Jennifer L<\/a>\u00a0on September 10, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/virtual.educ.ubc.ca\/wp\/etec523\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1512\/files\/sites\/1512\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-10-at-5.39.44-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55014\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/classroom.booksource.com\/\"><strong>Booksource<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a free classroom library organization tool that can be accessed via web browser (screenshot below) or on your mobile (for both Android and Apple). In addition to creating an inventory of all your books, teachers can also create and manage student accounts, track who has which book, level books, and assess student development. Furthermore, students can independently check out and return books, and leave reviews. Even though this tool isn\u2019t useful for everyone, it\u2019s an excellent, quality resource that has answered a very specific problem that many teachers have (keeping track of the books in their classroom library)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/virtual.educ.ubc.ca\/wp\/etec523\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1512\/files\/sites\/1512\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-10-at-5-768x480.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55013\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teachers can easily use their mobile phone to set up their class library (screenshot below). The application allows teachers to use their phone to scan ISBN barcodes, and do most of the features that the web version allows. It isn\u2019t a fancy application\u2013quite bare bones, in my opinion, but it gets the job done efficiently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/virtual.educ.ubc.ca\/wp\/etec523\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1512\/files\/sites\/1512\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-10-at-5.39.59-PM-768x327.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55015\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out of all the classroom library management applications I\u2019ve tried out so far, Booksource is the best FREE one I\u2019ve encountered because of how easy it is to use. There is a teacher-interface and a student-interface. It took me 20 minutes to teach my grade 6\/7 students how to use it on the iPad and they\u2019ve been independently using it since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Booksource was officially rebranded and launched in 2013, their company history goes back to 1974. More information can be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksource.com\/content\/History.aspx\">found here<\/a>. In addition to classroom organization tools, Booksource also sells book collections and is affiliated with various programs in its community to promote literacy education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Average: 4.7\/5 Stars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original post by\u00a0Jennifer L\u00a0on September 10, 2019 Booksource\u00a0is a free classroom library organization tool that can be accessed via web browser (screenshot below) or on&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/18\/booksource-classroom-organizer\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">booksource: classroom organizer<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":71796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobiletechnologies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}