Wednesday, April 29, 2009

ISBN database...Yes, Isbn

When you want to find a specific book, you need their ISBN. The ISBN is the fingerprint to that edition of the book. If you understand where to look, there are ways to point out that specific book you're holding.

Not only that, the ISBN will prove that you have actually read the book you were told or said you read. This is a remarkable device for teachers of English that need to make sure the student did in fact read that book.

In fact, a neat idea to use this database, is to set a laptop and a printer at the front of the class. As the students are turning in their reports, they also need to put the Ibsen into the database and printing it out, which then needs to be attached to the paper that's being turned in. If that printout doesn't match, it will only show how the student did not really read the book.

This great database is

http://isbndb.com/