Throughout this semester I have looked into the fact that Chick Lit is out there. It is not only out there for only ‘chicks’ but it is out there for the every day average Jane Doe to read. And Jane Doe can be any age too.
There have been all kinds of gossip going on about how Chick Lit is worthless, is skanky, is overall just trashy. But not all of Chick Lit is trashy. One must pick and choose their titles carefully or one will end up with a raunchy Harlequin smut book.
Chick Lit is popular–according to sales statistics from popular book chains–so obviously these pieces aren’t as negative as they may come off as. I believe they engage the readers (mainly if not all females) and promote more reading when sequals and trilogies become available, or even when the book starts a series. Chick lit is what it is. And it is definitely here to stay….
About the RSS Notebook….
I already had a blog of my own but I never really did any research or writings on particular articles I had found. So this blog was definitely a change from my every day ramblings.
I had never used Google reader or any other type of aggregator tool. Therefore starting out I felt kind of in the dark on what to do, where to begin. But as I delved into it more, and messed around with searches I became more aware of all of the possibilities that came with Google Reader and I definitely liked what I found. I now use it to keep up to date with my news paper back at home, my own blog as well as the gvsu blogs on livejournal.com, and a favorite webiste of mine called postsecret.com.
As for using it in my own classroom? I think it would be a great idea to have my students use a blog for book reports and use RSS Feeds to find other information out there that was related to their book. As long as my school has money for computers and also has some internet access—I definitely will include a blog in my classroom.
