What should we read first? And how structured should we be?

[Rob]

I've added a couple of books to the group's shelf to get us started - Little Brother and News from Nowhere. They have the advantage of both being in print, and (legally) available for free download as eBooks, so I thought they'd be good ones to get started with. Feel free to add others.

I think it would be be useful to have some ground-rules. General discussion is good, but we'll be likely to get more out of it if we have, say, one book a month that we make an effort to read so we can then all discuss it.

What think you?

[Ping]

Hey Rob! So glad you've started this. And thanks KC for alert too.

Ground-rules sounds good.
1 book a month sounds do-able.

We're in GoodReads:
does this / should we include in this group: news & journal articles too?

[Rob]

I think so, and a chunky journal article might be the "book of the month" occasionally. I think we should generally stick to open-access material, though, as some people might not be members of an academic library.

[Kc]

would like to keep it fairly light. Just because I have a pile of reading already on the go! would be interested in the odd journal article too.

[Ping]

sounds good to me!
1. keep it light
2. the odd open-access journal article
3. which platforms do we use on Apr 1?
~ Twitter?
~ Google Hangout?
~ ?

[Rob]

pingish wrote: "sounds good to me!
3. which platforms do we use on Apr 1?
~ Twitter?
~ Google Hangout?
~ ?"

I suppose I was mainly thinking of using the group forum here for discussion (it allows you to have a "folder" per book or topic). But a live chat of some sort sounds good as well - my preference would be Twitter (possibly keeping the #edcmchat/#edcmooc tags going, or getting one of our own), but I'm open to being persuaded.

[Cindy]

Will be willing to post some thoughts on Little Brother. I read it during the course and it definitely had an impact on me. Count me in and I'll be back Monday. --Cindy

[Asta]

Thanks for creating this group! I like the idea of EDCMOOC book club!
Open access books/journal articles and one read per month sound good!

[Glaucia]

I'm not giving reading suggestions, but would very much appreciate if the suggestion chosen were a free e-book ** times are hard :)

[Ping]

Hi Glaucia ~ Thanks for your message. We do try to make choices accessible.
eg. I haven't had to buy anything. The short stories have all been e-available classics/contemporary.
Longer ones (books) have always been accessible from my local library, but I don't know if that'd be the same in Brazil.

We will keep your point in mind!

Perhaps you could suggest some free e-books / add them to our bookshelf?
https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Hopefully see you at next #edcmchat; the next two month's reads are both e-available!
Ping

[Glaucia]

Hi Ping.I'll keep my eyes open if I find some interesting e-book, I will run here to share!! thank you :)

[Ping]

Great Glaucia!

Here's a little help in how to add books/short stories to our bookshelf:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
.

Ta!

[Asta]

What will we be reading in September for October 2014 #edcmchat? I have not been able to find a poll for that yet.

[Kc]

Hi Asta,
We haven't got a poll yet - I'll pop one up...! Please feel free to add text suggestions to it
K

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