After approximately 3 days of official summer vacation, I found myself spending hours creating lists of all the things I wanted to improve or change for next school year and researching everything I can about classroom management, organization, and new (to me) units and lesson plans.
After thinking through some of my organizational woes and bemoaning the fact that so many of my cherished and hard-earned young adult books have gone missing over the past two years, I came across this little gem:
a FREE web-based classroom library organizer!
I am amazed at everything this program will do. You can import class rosters, track your books' conditions, organize them in about a hundred different ways--slight exaggeration, but you get the point--and from my experience so far, it's pretty user-friendly as well. Just create a free account and begin building your classroom library, either by manually entering ISBN numbers or scanning barcodes with their free app (available for both android and iphone). Woot! Students can even login to check in/out books themselves so it's one less thing you have to manage. I haven't played with it as much as I would like to just yet because a majority of my titles are locked away and inaccessible at the moment, but I am envisioning a delightful few hours of productive library organization when we return. Happy scanning!
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