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Golden Sower Book Club: Grades 6-8.
 * **Objective**: Students will share their choice for top book with students from other school(s) allowing for broader discussions.


 * **Materials needed**: Copies of all the Golden Sowers Books, accounts in Moodle, account in Skype.
 * **Web sites**: GMS Moodle __;__ Golden Sower ; Animoto; Skype


 * **Summary**: In our middle school, we have two Golden Sower Book Clubs. One for groups and one for individuals. However we always seem to get the same kids to come to the Club - it's great, but sometimes it's nice to have a little more variety of opinions, etc. So a colleague at Blair Middle School and I are going to have an open discussion between Blair's Book Club and ours using Moodle and Skype to share comments. I like using Moodle because my under-13 students can still use it and it is in a controlled setting. We will also be sharing some book videos that older students created on Animoto.


 * **21st Century Skills Addressed**: Creativity and Innovation, Communication and Collaboration, ICT Literacy, Social and Cross-Cultural Skills.