After almost an entire school year of assessing students' reading, writing, and speaking, I have decided to assess this blog's rating system once more. Prior to the school year beginning, I made some changes to the rating system. At that time, they were more drastic than this change. I felt the use of pictures to be easier on the eyes with more of a straightforward approach to rating the books I read. When reviewing a book, I would show which row of books I was giving the bookI felt that the reader of the review would be unable to get a grasp of how many books were being used. Often, I, too, would ask myself, "So what does that mean?" or "How many Goodreads stars does that equate to?" My solution is the system below. Instead of the confusing row of books, pictures of books are used to measure how well I did or did not enjoy the book. The meaning of each rating has been slightly trimmed. For easy reference, you can now find the system on the righthand side, too, above the Archives. If you blog about books, what kind of system do you use?
What do you think of the changes to my system? Are they more helpful to understand the rating for a book? Comment below!
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Through reflection, I have decided to make some changes to The Avalanche ... of Books blog format, which includes the rating system of books.
The old rating system was based off The North American Public Avalanche Danger Scale and was too positive. I want to give credit where credit is due, but also be critical and provide the best rating I can to my blog readers. I have abandoned my old rating system and the Danger Scale in order to create a new rating system. Over the past few months, I have been trapped in an avalanche of recommendations from colleagues, students, peers, and friends. It has been a constant barrage. Now that I am finished with my teaching internship, I have some time to reflect and read in between #JobHunt2015 applications and interviews. With this time, posts centered around book reviews and ways to incorporate books into my classroom will be shared, and I need a rating system for these books. I wanted to keep with the theme of avalanches, so I did some research into avalanches. Scientifically speaking, there is an entire world dedicated to avalanches. There are a lot of excited people are out there who enjoy studying them and they are geeked. After reading about the different types of avalanches (dry, wet, slab) and the destruction sizes ("not enough snow to bury or kill a person"), I decided to loosely base my rating system on the destruction sizes according to the North American Public Avalanche Danger Scale. Please note: I am not making light the amount of destruction an avalanche can cause. I desire to keep a theme for my book blog. With this ranking system, reviews of books that I have read on my own or with my students will begin to be posted. The description of each category will depend on each book that is read and reviewed.
I am looking forward to sharing with you my thoughts and reflections! |
The Avalanche of Books
As an educator and avid reader, I am constantly hearing about books. I feel like I am being chased by a giant, rolling avalanche of titles and authors. Rating System
5 books - New fave! Read it now!
4 books - Shelf worthy 3 books - Quality read, but ... 2 books - Borrow it 1 book - Skip it Archives
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